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Cave Paintings to Picasso: The Inside Scoop on 50 Art Masterpieces
From prehistoric cave paintings to the Mona Lisa, from Nefertiti to Andy Warhol's Big Campbell's Soup Can 19, this book pairs full-color reproductions of 50 of the world's most celebrated masterpieces with brief, kid-accessible stories about how they were made, who made them and where they fit in the fascinating history of art. Featuring art from Europe, Africa, Asia, and...more
Hardcover, 96 pages
Published
August 26th 2004
by Chronicle Books
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I am very excited to use this book for the art part of our curriculum. One page shows the work of art, the opposite page discusses the work of art on a child's level (I'd say 3rd-4th?), talks about the art piece's background, the artist, technique, etc. It also shows a timeline of when in history the art piece was created. I also love that the book doesn't encompass just European art, but features art work from all around the world through a wide range of time.
My only concern is that it does ha...more
My only concern is that it does ha...more
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Have you ever wondered if art was the same way back when? Well in Cave Paintings to Picasso you find out. This book includes information on 50 of the worlds most famous art pieces, even dating back to the 1400's! Each piece in this book has it's own two pages. One with a picture of the piece and the other with information on the piece. On the top of each page in a "picture frame" there is the name of the piece, who made it, what kind it is, (i.e. oil on canvas, illustration on parchment, etc.) t...more
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Cave Paintings to Picasso is the perfect book to give any art lover. The book covers 50 pieces of art and provides a picture of each as well as a brief summary on the artworks history.
I could see this book being used in many subjects-Art, History, Music, English. This book could serve as a good introduction to art, but also delves into some of the cultural background of what was happening during the time the artist produced the piece.
The Booklist review mentioned may typos, but I didn't notice...more
I could see this book being used in many subjects-Art, History, Music, English. This book could serve as a good introduction to art, but also delves into some of the cultural background of what was happening during the time the artist produced the piece.
The Booklist review mentioned may typos, but I didn't notice...more
Apr 24, 2009
Rachel
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Recommends it for:
any adult or child interested in art, with no previous knowledge of the subject.
Shelves:
children,
art-and-film
The reason I picked this book is because it offers a wide range of art, i.e. not just Western art. There are classic pieces of Western art in here, like the Hall of the Bulls at Lascaux Caves in France, the She-Wolf Bronze from Rome, the Mona Lisa, Lorenzetti's Effects of Good Gov't and Michelangelo's David. But there's also other cool things like a Colossal Olmec head, Chinese silk scroll paintings, Head of an Oba brass head, and Mughal art. So kids get a really wide view of art history.
i love art (thus the reason i have an art history minor that i'm not at all putting to use!), and it was fun to look at which works were in this collection and overview for children. my son and i had fun talking about a few different pieces in the book, and why we liked them (of course his favorite was "The Great Wave" by Hokasai, which is also one of my favorites).
The visual imagery in this book is impressive; however, it contains a number of errors. While "to err is human," a good editor should pick up on misspellings and incorrect statements (people exhaling carbon monoxide in Lascaux, for example, instead of carbon dioxide), and particularly in nonfiction texts, faithful rendering of information is essential.
Great. I was able to review some favorites and find some new ones. Would definitely use to get my younger cousins interested in the arts.
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