Make Art: 20 free-play art projects to create - Susie Hodge

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.