Great American Artists for Kids: Hands-On Art Experiences in the Styles of Great American Masters (Bright Ideas for Learning (TM))

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ISBN-10:

0935607005

ISBN-13:

9780935607000

Released: Jul 04, 2008
Format: Paperback, 144 pages

Description:

75 great American masters are introduced through open-ended quality art activities allowing kids to explore great art styles from colonial times to the present. Each child-tested art activity presents a biography, full color artwork, and techniques covering painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture, and more. Special art options for very young children are included. Many great artists will be familiar names, like Cassatt, Warhol, and O'Keeffe. Other names will be new to some, like Asawa, Smithson, and Magee. Each featured artist has a style that is interesting to children, with a life history that will entertain and inspire them.

Sample of some of the artists and companion activities:
Andy Warhol - Package Design
Bev Doolittle - Camouflage Draw
Dale Chihuly - Pool Spheres
Maya Lin - Memorial Plaque
Jasper Johns - Encaustic Flag
Joseph Raffael - Shiny Diptych
Roy Lichtenstein - Comic Sounds
Thomas Jefferson - Clay Keystone
Edward Hopper - Wash Over
Grant Wood - Gothic Paste-Up
Wolf Kahn - Layered Pastel
Jackson Pollock - Great Action Art
Mary Cassatt - Back-Draw Monoprint
Louis Comfort Tiffany - Bright Windows
Hans Hofmann - Energetic Color Blocks
Rube Goldberg - Contraption
Georgia O'Keeffe - Paint with Distance

2009 Moonbeam Children's Bronze Award
2009 Benjamin Franklin Award

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