Start Exploring Masterpieces: Coloring Book (Paperback)

~ Mary Martin (Author), Steven Zorn (Author) "enri Rousseau thought himself to paint, which may explain why his paintings look so different from anyone else's..." (more)
Key Phrases: French Style, Paris Date, Impressionism Location (more...)

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Product Description

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.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

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

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Running Pr; Revised edition (June 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0894718010
• ISBN-13: 978-0894718014
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,257,089 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Start Exploring Masterpieces, June 12, 2000

By A Customer

This is a great coloring book! It is a fun, kinesthetic method of learning and enjoying 500 years of great paintings. The drawings are not overly detailed, enabling you to use your imagination in coloring with just enough detail to do justice to the painting.

The stories are brief but entertaining. You are given information about the painting, including the nationality and style and date of the author as well as where the painting is now located. This is very useful in searching for more information on the painting.

Highly recommended to anyone who would like to expose their children (or themselves) to great art in a fun and relaxing way! A great springboard to learning.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful resource for any art teacher, December 29, 2002

By A Customer

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.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You Can Make Your Own Masterpiece!, March 25, 2002

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.