How to Talk to Children About Art

• For all who want to share their love of art with children
  
• In question-and-answer format, color-coded for three age groups
  
• Valuable tips for making your museum or gallery visit a success

A must-have for adults who want their children to love and understand art, this guide anticipates how kids will react to paintings by artists as diverse as Botticelli, Vermeer, Degas, Chagall, and Pollock. Questions and answers about 30 famous paintings provide historical background, explain genres such as still life and portrait, and demystify religious and mythological themes. Color-coded tabs let adults flip to pages appropriate to the ages of their children (5-7 years; 8-10 years; 11-13+ years). Full-color reproductions of all the paintings invite study at home before and after the museum visit.