Make Art promotes artistic freedom to inspire young minds aged 7 and up. Learn about 21 key art movements across history, and create unique art projects inspired by them with a bumper pack of materials for step-by-step projects including 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 Saikō, 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
The box kit is packed with sheets of art supplies, giving you everything you need for all the projects in the book: 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 and 7 press-out model sheets.
Written by Susie Hodge, a British art historian, author, artist, and journalist with over 100 books to her name for both adults and children.
