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 looks at shapes to see how they are depicted by artists and how they help to convey meaning in art. 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.

Colors reveals the many moods that artists can achieve by using colours differently, looking at paintings with few colours and those with many and at both representational and abstract paintings. It includes reproductions of paintings by Claude Monet, Jasper Johns,Vasily Kandinsky and Pablo Picasso.