From Boing Boing:
Looking at Paintings is a beginning textbook for young children (I’d say 6-12) who are wondering the same thing. Using beautifully reproduced paintings and crisp prose,Looking at Paintings expounds on the history of visual art, and the use of size, shape, color, light and dark, perspective, frame, motion and materials in creating visual effects. The short chapters are lavishly illustrated, and each section ends with a short quiz and a Mickey Mouse comic that uses comedy to re-cover the material.
Having read the book, I feel like I learned rather a lot. The beautiful art, combined with the simple, intelligent accompanying text, has me looking at artists from Pollack to Chagal to Rembrandt in new ways. I only wish someone had handed me a book like this when I was about seven. I can’t wait to get to a gallery again.
Link to Boing article. Link to book on Amazon (with preview pages).
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