Monday 2 June 2008

Unplugged project - paint

The theme for this weeks Unplugged Project was paint.

This inspired us to get on and look at a book which we have had for a couple of years but haven't really looked at properly till now. It's called The Story of Painting by Abigail Wheatley ISBN 9780746076965







The chapters include Cave Painting to Classical, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, High Drama and Quiet Lives, Revolution, Modern Times and a timeline.

It is quite heavily illustrated with very appealing colourful pictures throughout. Having said that it still contains masses of information and I would estimate it to be most suitable for the 7 to 11 sort of age range.

I can't say more than that right now as we have just read one chapter, but so far so good!

5 comments:

morningstar said...

What a beautiful book. I am sure it will insprire many paintings!

Anonymous said...

Looks like a neat book - I am sure it will inspire many creations! :)

Pam said...

That looks like an awesome book. I will have to check into this for my son.
Pam
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Anonymous said...

This looks like a wonderful book! Thanks for sharing it with us. There aren't a lot of good art history books for that age range. Thanks!

Gottfredsen said...

That Looks like a beautiful book.