Author: Silke Vry
Publisher: Prestel
ISBN: 9783791370262
Binding: hardcover
Pages: 96
Format: 19.3 x 24 cm
English language
Recommended age: +8 years
Painters, sculptors, and photographers often try to convince their audiences that the paint is wet; the fruit is real; the window is open; the figure’s eyes are following you around the room. This fun and informative book takes young readers on a thematic tour of art as illusion. From the Parthenon to examples from nearly every major movement and culture, vibrant works of art are revealed that contain visual tricks, wordplay, hidden clues, and just plain deception. Seurat’s pointillism, da Vinci’s mysterious Mona Lisa, Magritte’s playful paintings-within-paintings, Duane Hanson’s eerily realistic statues are all explored in detail to analyze the techniques, styles, use of perspective, and composition that implore us to look at them again and again. Filled with ideas for DIY optical projects, each chapter focuses on a theme such as color, hidden images, and surrealism. Designed with the curious eye in mind, this book will introduce young readers to alluring works of art with a fresh take and a new way of appreciating some of the world's most important works of art.
