Art Treasury

by Rosie Dickins

Book Overview

This delightful treasury combines dazzling art from around the world with exciting projects to do that will inspire every young artist. It includes famous European paintings, delicate Japanese prints... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0794514529
• ISBN13: 9780794514525
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Usborne Books
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.8" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A wonderful hands-on art experience for kids!

I love that this book not only introduces kids to beautiful art (age-appropriately) but also allows them to experience the art through simple projects to make it themselves. My grans (3, 4 & 6) LOVE this book and all the art they’ve created because of it!

great classroom resource

I ordered this book because others had rated it so highly and am so glad I did. There are nice brief bios of each artist or art style. A nice illustration of the featured work and best of all fabulous step by step instructions for how to make a beautiful project with kids of any age.

Lovely Addition to an Art Classroom!

I was given this book as a graduation gift from my mentor. After paging through the book I was inspired for many art history based projects! There are over 20 lessons on full colored, bright pages. Each lesson has a famous artist example and a wonderful lesson based on that artwork. There is an entire page, with the image, that talks about the artist and a few tid bits on their lives. [a perfect amount for elementary level students' attention spans!] In addition to the image and artist info is a step by step instruction to the lesson with pictures! Wonderful. I recently complted a Georgia O Keeffe lesson [cutting flowers] with my third grade and they loved it! I am looking forward to some of the other lessons, like McNeill Whistlers Falling Rocket. [the students make a city scene with fireworks exploding in the sky!] I highly recommend this book as a wonderful supplement to the elementary art classroom.

Perfect mix of art and art history!

This book is wonderful! I am planning to use it as an art/art history curriculum for my kindergarten-age daughter in the fall, and I can hardly wait to get started! The book includes art by 22 artists from better-known van Gogh, Degas, and Picasso to lesser-known 20th-century artists and unknown African mask makers and Iranian tile artists. One work of art by each artist is showcased along with brief, interesting history about the piece and the artist. On the next page spread, there is detailed instructions for creating art using similar techniques to those of the artist. There is a fairly wide scope of projects--acrylics, pastels, water color techniques along with more projects like mask making, sculpture, mobile making, block painting and others. The book is colorful and beautifully illustrated. While I like all of the Usborne art books, this one stands out particularly because the pieces become inspiration for the child's creativity. The necessary supplies for the projects are very simple. I consider myself to have a fairly limited craft closet, but I have every item called for in the book. I think its content is a little advanced for kindergarten, but I plan to keep it "low pressure and experimental." I think this book would be a great resource up through elementary school.

Beautiful paintings and fun art projects for kids to relate

Really beautiful sample of paintings, prints, sculptures, etc... Although my child is too young to read, we selected a few pieces of art she was interested in, and I read it to her. If your young child watches 'Little Einstein', this book is great because some of the art pieces showcased in the cartoon are in this book. And, the book has extra tidbits about the piece and the artist, which gives the art an extra dimension and something for my child to think about when she sees the works of art in Little Einstein. The projects suggested or inspired by each art work are also really neat. You could make it work for any age since there is a different project for each art piece. My only minor gripe is that some of the paintings are folded in the binding since the book is not an extra large size. This takes a bit away from the 'wow' factor of the pieces.