Through a collection of masterpieces, readers are challenged to examine a painting and consider what may happen next in relation to the body language of the people they see presented in the artwork.
Through a collection of masterpieces, such as "The Scullery Maid" and "The Graham Children," readers are challenged to examine a painting and consider what may happen next in relation to the body language of the people they see presented in the artwork, complete with biographical information about the various artists. Reprint.
Focuses on how artists tell us what the figures in their paintings are feeling without using words. Each picture tells something about the subject's inner feelings, attitude or mood. Readers will be encouraged to explore how faces express thoughts and look at how body language exposes states of mind.
This exciting art title focuses on how artists use body language to tell stories and say how a person is feeling. Award-winning art writer, Gillian Wolfe, looks at 18 paintings and examines how their faces, hands and bodies give powerful messages.
This informative, interactive book invites children to look up, down, outside, inside, close up, and all around 18 different paintings. Questions and activities on each page encourage focused viewing. For example, ?Look Behind features two paintings, Crespi's The Scullery Maid and Hogarths The Graham Children. For the former, the book asks, ?What do you think will happen next? and for the latter, ?How would their lives have been different? Works from the Renaissance to the present day are represented, and subjects include trapeze artists, clowns, trains, animals, and children. Biographical information about the artists and where to view the original paintings is included.
