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What's the Big Idea?: Activities and Adventures in Abstract Art (Art Explorers) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for What's the Big Idea?Highlights the work of six famous artists. This title represents each artist by a famous artwork, paired with questions to get children thinking about what they see. It features easy-to-follow activities that provide hands-on experience with the artist's techniques, subject and media, each illustrated with examples by real children.
Full description- Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
- Published: 27 March 2008
- Format: Hardback 48 pages
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- Categories: Art | Art & Design
- ISBN 13: 9780823099986 ISBN 10: 0823099989
- Sales rank: 191,177
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Full description for What's the Big Idea?
"The Art Explorers" series offers a new approach to art, encouraging children to interpret what they see in famous artworks and then try the techniques themselves. "What's the Big Idea?" highlights the work of six famous artists. Each artist is represented by a famous artwork, paired with questions to get children thinking about what they see. Easy-to-follow activities provide hands-on experience with the artist's techniques, subject and media, each illustrated with examples by real children. Packed with great art and great activities, this series lets kids understand art and encourages them to become artists themselves.Joyce Raimondo, the author of all of the books in the "Art Explorers" series, worked at The Museum of Modern Art in New York for eight years. She is the director of Imagine That! art education, specialising in helping children access the arts. She lives in East Hampton, NY.
