Look! Seeing the Light in Art - Hardcover

Wolfe, Gillian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184507467X ISBN 13: 9781845074678

Publisher: Lincoln Children's Books, 2006

Synopsis

This exciting art title focuses on how artists use light in their paintings. This book uses some of the most famous and best-loved artists of all time to show how their paintings reflect dramatic light, mysterious light, cold light, hot light, dappled light, rainy light, light patterns, light shapes and other forms of light.

About this title

About the Author:

Gillian Wolfe CBE is Director of Learning and Public Affairs at Dulwich Picture Gallery, one of the most renowned private collections in the UK. She also works as a freelance consultant, and has lectured all over the world. Her previous art books for children include My First Art Book, winner of the Parent Choice Silver Honour Award, USA; and Art Activity Book and Children's Art Book, both winners of the Gulbenkian Prize for Best Museum Publications of the Year. Her titles with Frances Lincoln include Look! Zoom in on Art, which won the English Association's Award for the best children's non-fiction book, Look! Body Language in Art, Look! Seeing the Light in Art and Look! Drawing the Line in Art. In 1995, Gillian was awarded an MBE and in 2005 the CBE for services to Arts Education. She lives in South London.

Review:

This is such an unusual and interesting way way of looking at pictures. There is a useful paragraph about each artist and some suggestions for activities. --Carousel

An eclectic selection of paintings is brought together from a wide range of genres on the basis of each one's attention to the issue of light. From the dappled impressionistic light of Renoir to the heightened contrast of a Frank Hampson Dan Dare frame, each is examined on a facing page through a knowledgeable but unpatronizing text. --Books for Keeps, March 1, 2010

About this edition

• Publisher: Lincoln Children's Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 184507467X
• ISBN 13: 9781845074678
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40