Animals in Art 2: Artists & Illustrators Today.Botsford, CT: Reading & O'Reilly, Inc./Wilton Art programs, (800-458-4274) 2002. Dual format for MAC and Windows, $49.95. In an interesting follow-up to a video reviewed in the November issue of SchoolArts, animal imagery as seen by contemporary artists and illustrators is featured in this new production. It is both informative and fascinating to note how different species of animals are represented by different artists in different contexts. Five main areas of art production are featured: book illustrators, wildlife artists, camouflage artists, storytelling Storytelling Aesop semi-legendary fabulist of ancient Greece. [Gk. Lit.: Harvey, 10] Münchäusen Baron traveler grossly embellishes his experiences. [Ger. Lit. , and snakes & art. Each of these areas focuses on the work of accomplished individual artists, such as Bev Doolittle Bev Doolittle (born January 10 into a large family, 1947) is an American artist working mainly in watercolor paints. She paints scenes of the American West that feature themes of Native American life, wild animals, horses, and landscapes. who deals with symbolism and metamorphism metamorphism, in geology, process of change in the structure, texture, or composition of rocks caused by agents of heat, deforming pressure, shearing stress, hot, chemically active fluids, or a combination of these, acting while the rock being changed remains camouflaged and incorporated into her carefully composed western scenes. Overall, there are more than fifty sequential teaching units that feature artists' stories, puzzles, games, interdisciplinary learning, and others that connect art to the world around us. This is an excellent resource, making effective use of CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). interactivity possibilities, directed to students in middle school. A student workbook work·book n. 1. A booklet containing problems and exercises that a student may work directly on the pages. 2. A manual containing operating instructions, as for an appliance or machine. 3. is also included. For further savings, both of the Animals in Art CD-ROMS may be purchased at a combined price of $89.95. |
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