Isolates the artistic element of lines, discusses what thoughts and feelings can be conveyed by different kinds of lines, and examines how they contribute to a work of art through various examples

Lines

yenawine,philip

Arts & Photography

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Isolates the artistic element of color, discusses what thoughts and feelings can be conveyed by different colors, and examines how they contribute to a work of art through various examples

Colors

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

Isolates the artistic element of shape, discusses what visual ideas and effects can be conveyed by different shapes, and examines how they contribute to a work of art through various examples

Shapes

Isolates the artistic element of story, what is happening in a painting, and discusses how story contributes to a work of art through several examples

Stories

These bright, compact hardcovers introduce young readers and their parents to six visual building blocks--Lines, Shapes, Colors, People, Places and Stories--via an assortment of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art. Author Philip Yenawine, the longtime Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art, is currently co-director of Visual Understanding in Education, a developmentally based education research organization. He has also been affiliated with education programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In Shapes Yenawine asks questions like, "Can you find buildings? And roofs?" while looking at a Picasso study. Other Shapes artists include Seurat, Gauguin, Malevich, Mondrian, Arp, Klee, Smith and Dali. Colors looks at Monet, de Kooning, Kandinsky, Albers, Stella and Johns, among others. Places includes 21 artworks by artists such as Hopper, Munch, Klimt, and Bonnard, while People highlights works by Balthus, Degas, Freud, Cezanne, Neel and Rivera. Lines features 16 works by van Gogh, Matisse, Pollock, Morandi, O'Keeffe and others. And Stories includes Chagall, Wyeth, Lichtenstein, Dubuffet, Shahn, Moore and Magritte. Each volume comes with an illustrated summary of artworks.

Doubleday Books for Young Readers

This explores the concept of color mainly from paintings in New York's Museum of Modern Art. Also use: Stories (1991).

A collection of paintings, drawings, and photographs exhibited in New York's Museum of Modern Art encourages young readers to think about the places in the artwork and features notes to parents that help them discuss art with their children.

Places

People

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART.

Individual Artists

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Lines

Colors

Shapes

Stories

Lines

Colors

Stories

Places

People

Places