Colors

This is one of a series of books on modern art created to help very young people learn the basic vocabulary used by artists, a sort of ABC of art. This book isolates colours to show how they are used by artists and how they contribute to meaning in art. By looking at colours and discussing what thoughts and feelings they suggest, adults encourage children to develop creative thinking skills. Notes at the back of each book provide brief background information that adults will find useful when talking with children about the images reproduced in these books.

Contents: Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones and Colours, Paul Signac; * Water Lilies, Monet; * Moonrise, Mamoroneck, New York, Edward Steichen; * Two Acrobats with a Dog, Picasso; * Woman I, Willem de Kooning; * Simultaneous Counter-Composition, Theo van Doesburg; * Painting Number 201, Vasily Kandinsky; * Homage to the Square, Josef Albers; * Abra Variation I, Frank Stella; * Kastura, Frank Stella; * Still Life with Watermelon, Irving Penn; * Street, Dresden, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; * Murnau Landscape, Vasily Kandinsky; * Vase of Flowers, Odilon Redon; * Street Light, Giacomo Balla; * Cathedral, Hans Hofmann; * Between the Clock and the Bed, Jasper Johns; * Port-en-Bessin, Entrance to the Harbour, Georges-Pierre Seurat Jubilee, Jasper Johns.