ARTistic Pursuits, Grades K-3 Book Two, Stories of Artists and Their Art

Walk your young students through the history of art in this creative path to artistic creation. Sixteen featured artists provide the backbone of this course, as students focus on the lives of artists such as Michelangelo, Bruegel, Vermeer and Millet, who left the world with a vision. Lessons are based on these individual artists, helping to fix in children's minds the character of each artist and their work. Each chapter features a short fictional work on the artist's childhood, information on media and methods used, notes on the time period, analysis of a master painting, and related projects. Covers from the late Gothic to the academy artists of the 18th century. 79 pages, softcover with plastic protector cover; comb-binding. Grades K-3; Book 2. 2nd Edition.