Description
Learn about 21 key art movements across history, and create over 21 unique art projects inspired by them with a bumper pack of materials.
The box kit is packed with sheets of art supplies, giving you everything you need for all the projects in the book. Enclosed are:
- 3 sheets of card stencils
- 9 sheets of press-out paper pieces
- 3 sheets of coloured tissue paper
- 4 sticker sheets
- 14 sheets of patterned printed paper
- 7 press-out model sheets
Inspired by the art movements highlighted in the book, the step-by-step projects enable you to craft unique sculptures, model monuments, collages, paintings, and installations.
Explore art from around the world, from prehistory to the present day, including:
- Prehistoric art: Cave paintings, Venus of Willendorf
- Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Rome, Indus Valley
- Islamic Art: Calligraphy, Ottoman tiles, Persian Kilim, Mamluk metalwork
- Aztec and Incan art: jewellery and relief carvings
- Italian Renaissance: perspective, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
- Optical Illusions: trompe l’oeil, impossible objects, Hogarth and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
- The art of Benin: Edo bronze work
- Mughal Art: Architecture (Taj Mahal), Miniature Paintings, Sahifa Banu
- Edo Period Japan: Woodblock Art and Hosukai, Nanga and Ema Saiko, formal gardens
- Korean Joseon Art: art and poetry with Heo Nanseolheon, Jeong Seon, pottery
- Indonesian traditional art: Batik textiles, shadow puppetry
- Imperial Chinese art: calligraphy, porcelain, Yun Bing
- First Nations of Western Canada: wooden carvings, chilkat weaving, formlines
- Modernism: Fauvism and Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo
- Impressionism: Mary Cassat, Monet
- Post-Impressionism: Vincent van Gogh, pointillism and Georges Seurat
- Aboriginal Art of Australia: dot painting and the Dreamtime
- American Modernism: Georgia O’Keeffe, Morgan Russell
- Abstract Art: Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky
- Pop Art: screenprinting and Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein
- Street Art: Keith Haring, Basquiat, Banksy, Falko 1
Written by Susie Hodge
Illustrated by Jenny Bowers
Make Art promotes artistic freedom to inspire young minds aged 7 and up
Published: September 10th, 2024
Imprint: Design Eye
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