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Great American artists for kids : hands-on art experiences in the styles of great American masters / MaryAnn F. Kohl, Kim Solga.

Kohl, MaryAnn F. (Author). Solga, Kim (Artist) (Added Author).

Summary:

From the Publisher: Fun and easy art-appreciation activities abound in this resource that features 75 American artists from colonial times to the present. A brief biography for each artist tells why his or her work is important, and a kid-tested art activity tries out the artist's approach. For Georgia O'Keeffe, the activity is a desert painting; for Frederic Remington, a face cast; for Leroy Nieman, a sketch of athletes; and for James Whistler, a clay engraving. Projects stress the creative process and encourage kids to try unusual techniques such as block printing, soak-stain, and stone carving as they learn about architecture, drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture. A resource guide provides a glossary of art terms, a list that groups the artists by style, a list of the artists' birthdays, an index of art supplies, and websites for viewing art online.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0935607005
  • ISBN: 9780935607000
  • Physical Description: 142 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 x 28 cm.
  • Publisher: Bellingham, WA : Bright Ring Publishing, [2008]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-129) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
4: American Art Onward -- Foil friend / Roy De Forest -- Foam brush faces / Fritz Scholder -- Surreal tableau photo / Sandy Skoglund -- Mega-shiny diptych / Joseph Raffael -- Wish quilt / Faith Ringgold -- Heart works / Jim Dine -- Concentric paint / Frank Stella -- Rock on / Alan Magee -- Color grid / Chuck Close -- Sanded wood spirits / Jewell James -- Trinket sculpture / Pepon Osorio -- Shack sculpture / Beverly Buchanan -- Memorial plaque / Maya Lin -- Camouflage mixed media / Bev Doolittle -- Pool spheres / Dale Chihuly -- Free-hand silhouette / Kara Walker -- Still life with glass / Janet Fish -- Masked form / Julian Schnabel -- Resource guide -- Internet sites -- Great art words -- Great art styles -- Credits & acknowledgments -- Artists birthdays -- Index -- About the authors, our team.
Introduction -- Icons -- Chart of contents -- 1: Early American Art -- Narrative drama / John S Copley -- Clay keystone arch / Thomas Jefferson -- Painted crackle crayon / Gilbert Stuart -- Peaceable collage / Edward Hicks -- Draw bugs 'n critters / John James Audubon -- Face casting / Frederic Remington -- Monoprint back-draw / Mary Cassatt -- Felt applique / Harriet Powers -- Assembly line coloring / Nathanael Currier -- Assembly line coloring / James Ives -- Bright light window / Louis Comfort Tiffany -- Side-view portrait / James McNeill Whistler -- Great reproduction / John Singer Sargent -- Real painting / William Sidney Mount -- 2: New American Ideas -- Feelings wash over / Edward Hopper -- Bubble window / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Carved clay / Gutzon Borglum -- Busy season / Grandma Moses -- Energetic color blocks / Hans Hofmann -- Homage portrait / Charles Demuth -- Sports figures / George Bellows -- Box assemblage / Joseph Cornell -- Coil pottery / Maria Martinez -- Bas relief clay carving / Elijah Pierce -- Daily picture diary / Horace Pippin -- Hero mural / Thomas Hart Benton -- Invent a Rube Goldberg / Rube Goldberg -- Gothic paste-up / Grant Wood -- 3: American Art Explodes -- Magazine cover / Norman Rockwell -- Friendly portrait / Ansel Adams -- Rocking stabile / Alexander Calder -- Playground model / Walt Disney -- Edgy relief / Charles Biederman -- Color-field panel / Mark Rothko -- Interwining ribbons / Willem de Kooning -- Scratchboard illustration / Barbara Cooney -- Tetrahedra sculpture / Buckminster Fuller -- Great action art / Jackson Pollock -- Squiggle talk / Saul Steinberg -- Mixed montage / Romare Bearden -- Suessels / Theodor Seuss Geisel -- Layered soft pastel / Wolf Kahn -- Tissue stain / Richard Diebenkorn -- Encaustic flag on wood / Jasper Johns -- Package design / Andy Warhol -- Yummy cake painting / Wayne Thiebaud -- Comic sounds / Roy Lichtenstein -- Very special stamp / Robert Indiana -- Dough panel / Ruth Asawa -- Soak stain / Helen Frankenthaler -- Ruled stamp wash / Agnes Martin -- Balsa block print / Elizabeth Catlett -- Painting with distance / Georgia O'Keeffe -- Action athlete / LeRoy Neiman -- Super-size sculpture / Claes Oldenburg -- Super-size sculpture / Coosje van Bruggen -- Subway chalk / Keith Haring -- Spiral earth art / Robert Smithson --
Subject:
Art > Study and teaching (Elementary)
Art > Technique > Juvenile literature.
Artists > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Creative activities and seat work.
Genre:
Biographies.

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