Introduces the key concepts of painting, and teaches how to enjoy and interpret art to suit individual tastes.

From the Publisher: Anticipating how kids react to paintings by artists as diverse as Botticelli, Vermeer, Degas, Chagall, and Pollack, this resource for adults who want children to love and understand art prepares them for the types of questions kids ask. Providing parents and teachers with valuable tips for making any visit to a museum with children a success, this guide offers a great primer or refresher course on art history, allowing adults to...

This book decodes the imagery of more than 150 of the most influential and admired artworks of all time.

The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary viewer, Look Again shows how this need not be the case. Ossian Ward's simple, ten-step programme acts as an aid to looking, breaking down the often obscure strategies of the Old Masters into intuitive categories - from Art as Honesty to Art as Vision. 0Look Again's novel approach is influenced by John Berger's...

An introduction to more than 30 of the world's most famous artists with fascinating facts about them and their paintings. Done in a whodunnit mystery format, the reader must find out who the mastermind criminal art dealer is who has stolen the originals and replaced them with forgeries. Compare the paintings for sale with photographs of the genuine works. Will you be able to spot which ones are the fakes?

There are no rules, and even less justice. Death takes everyone without discrimination. Sometimes it is accidental - like Signorelli, who fell from scaffolding. Sometimes it is expected, as with the diabetic Cezanne, who wrote "I am old, sick, and I swore to die while painting". But often, researching a painter's death is an easier task than determining which of their works is truly their 'last'. Paintings tend to be dated by year and not month, inciting...

Presents fifty paintings by major artists from the Renaissance to the Twentieth century and includes a brief critical analysis of the work, a timeline for the artist--

"Painting is a continually expanding and evolving medium. The radical changes that have taken place since the 1960s and 1970s--the period that saw the shift from a modernist to a postmodernist visual language--have led to its reinvigoration as a practice, lending it an energy and diversity that persists today. In Painting Now, renowned critic and art historian Suzanne Hudson offers an intelligent and original survey of contemporary painting--a critical...