Month-by-Month Masterpieces: Explorations of 10 Great Works With Step-by-Step Projects

By Bobbi Chertok, Goody Hirshfeld, Marilyn Rosh

Book Overview

Explorations of 10 great works with step-by-step art projects. Full-color, fold-out poster reproductions of eight masterpieces by various artists (e.g. Picasso and Bearden). Plus strategies for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590251015
• ISBN13: 9780590251013
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Scholastic Professional Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Masterpieces paints the art of effective writing, too!

The paintings and accompanying activities in Month-By-Month Masterpieces effectively illustrate the relationship between an artist's choice of color, form, style and intention. It enables students to understand and enact that connection when they study and create paintings in the same styles of the artists. As the book explores ten great works and their artists' processes, and it can also serve as an effective tool for teaching creative writing. When students begin to see that every color, shape and mood of a painting reveals the artist's intention and style, in turn they begin to understand that every word in their writing sends signals to readers as it creates images. I used the activities from this wonderfully accessible book in my sixth grade language arts classes, and their subsequent, image-filled poetry proves its efficacy as a writing tool. As it demonstrated for students the strong link between color, form and meaning in visual art, it enabled them to paint precise pictures with their words