An artistic adventure awaits you! Masterpieces leads you on a guided tour of sixty paintings by some of the world's best artists. Each painting has been carefully redrawn and is ready to color--with crayons, colored pencils, markets, and your imagination. Accompanying each painting is a story that describes it and introduces you to the artist. See the world through the eyes of the great painters as you read these tales and color these pictures of kings, gypsies, flowers, parties, dancers, heroes, and more. Here are just some of the things you can do inside Masterpieces: Visit exotic Tahiti with Gaugin Choose a new suite for Gainsborough's Blue Boy Take a dance lesson with Degas See Venus, the goddess of love, rising from the ocean Watch the stars with van Gogh Join Renoir for a boating party Fight for liberty with Delacroix Meet Whistler's mother Spend a Sunday afternoon in the park with Seurat Go bird-watching with Audubon These priceless art treasures represent more than five hundred years of painting. Now you can color them yourself to create new masterpieces of your own.
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Steven Zorn wrote children’s abridgments of The Classic Book of Best-Loved Bedtime Stories, The Classic Treasury of Bulfinch’s Mythology, and Robinson Crusoe. Mary Martin
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Wonderful resource for any art teacher,
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This review is from: START EXPLORING(tm) Masterpieces - A Fact-Filled Coloring Book (Paperback)
This book is a great resource for any art teacher. I am an elementary (k-6) art teacher and I use these coloring book pages for my students to help re-enforce the art history lessons that I use in the classroom. It is great for them to see and color a copy of a painting that they have learned about at the end of the lesson, and they have a masterpiece to take home with them. I have used them with all my students, and all age ranges. Some of them are a little difficult for the kindergarteners because the pictures are very detailed...but it is a great way to help develop those fine motor skills for the little ones. My students love to color their own masterpieces after we have discussed the actual painting in the classroom. I use this at least once a week, and the interesting facts that accompany every painting are well written and concise.
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You Can Make Your Own Masterpiece!,
By "susancavallaro" (Gainesville, FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: START EXPLORING(tm) Masterpieces - A Fact-Filled Coloring Book (Paperback)
I have just received my coloring book of masterpieces and I was very happy at the kinds of paintings that were put into the book. They are some of the ones i have studied in humanities and art history. They are really neat to copy onto a canvas and paint them. I like the information they include on the artists and what time period they lived in. I hope they come out with a second book of just more masterpieces to color.
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Makes Learning Fun,
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This neat book is a great way to help your child or student learn about art and the great masterpieces (or yourself, if you prefer to use a fun method to teach yourself). Users get to color masterpieces in their own way, and the opposite page gives a brief, easy-to-read-and-understand description of the work of art and artist.
Coloring books tend to be useful tools in teaching children, as they are interactive and fun, and they make what could be a complex subject accessible to children -- which is pretty cool! There are more books in this series, and they look great, too.
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enri Rousseau thought himself to paint, which may explain why his paintings look so different from anyone else's. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
French Style, Paris Date, Impressionism Location, New York Date, Dutch Style, Italian Style, London Date, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery, Peter Paul, Renaissance Location, The Mona Lisa, Dutch School Location, Flemish Style, Madonna of the Goldfinch, United States, American Style, English Style, King Henry, Liberty Leading the People, Nude Descending, Sunday Afternoon, The Blue Boy, The Dancing Class, Amsterdam Date New!
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enri Rousseau thought himself to paint, which may explain why his paintings look so different from anyone else's. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
French Style, Paris Date, Impressionism Location, New York Date, Dutch Style, Italian Style, London Date, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery, Peter Paul, Renaissance Location, The Mona Lisa, Dutch School Location, Flemish Style, Madonna of the Goldfinch, United States, American Style, English Style, King Henry, Liberty Leading the People, Nude Descending, Sunday Afternoon, The Blue Boy, The Dancing Class, Amsterdam Date New!
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- The Garden of Eden by Eve Adams on page 93
- Birds of America by John James Audubon on page 117
- The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Martha Carey on page 67
- Still Life by American Federation Of Art on page 110
- Marc Chagall by Jean-Michel Foray on page 36
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