They also represent an intriguing menagerie of beasts, from the mysterious deer and horses stampeding across the wall of Lascaux cave to Paul Klee's whimsical heart -nosed cat dreaming of a bird. The works featured in Animals in Art represent a variety of styles which youngsters will encounter again in museums and in books: the muscular realism of Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair, the delicate romanticism of Martin Johnson Heade's Cattleya Orchid and Tree Brazilian Hummingbirds, and the bold abstraction of Henri Matisse's The Snail. Using an approach which is as fun as it is effective, the author deftly guides her young audience toward their own understanding of and delight in the world of art.

In COME LOOK WITH ME: Animals in Art, the third volume of her series of interactive art books, she makes the most of children's natural curiosity about animals to introduce them not only to twelve magnificent works of art, but also to a whole new way of encountering art. Square 8vo 8' to 9' tall 32 pages Few subjects have more immediate appeal to children than animals, and few methods of teaching youngsters to appreciate fine art have proven more successful than those of art educator Gladys S. Inscribed and signed by author on title-page: 'To Taylor, Enjoy!! Gladys S. MDS classes with significant recommendations overlap, excluding ones under the same top-level class.Thomasson-Grant. 19th century (39) 20th century (59) aesthetics (605) anthropology (28) architecture (64) art (4,258) art appreciation (204) art criticism (293) art history (1,009) art theory (369) artists (64) arts (70) BFIAR (33) children (33) children's (64) creativity (412) critical theory (30) criticism (145) design (156) essay (60) essays (223) evolution (39) geometry (32) historiography (36) history (230) inspiration (52) Japan (34) Kandinsky (49) literature (40) math (121) modern art (56) modernism (33) museums (32) nature (31) non-fiction (832) optical illusions (47) painting (166) paintings (31) perception (108) philosophy (653) philosophy of art (52) photography (100) picture book (85) postmodernism (43) psychology (375) psychology of art (67) read (53) reference (73) science (106) sculpture (36) self-help (42) Sonlight (44) spirituality (45) textbook (36) theory (200) to-read (711) unread (34) visual perception (68) wishlist (29) writing (110) 'Far Friends'

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