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LOOK AGAIN The 1968

Childcraft Annual

An Annual Supplement to Childcraft -The How and

Why

Library

Field Enterprises Educational Corporation Chicago

London

Rome

Sydney

Toronto

1968 by

Copyright

Field Enterprises Educational Corporation

Merchandise Mart Plaza. Chicago.

Printed

Illinois

60654

reserved.

All rights in

Library of

the United States of America

Congress Catalog Card No 65-25105

Acknowledgments The publishers

of

Childcraft- The

How and

Library gratefully acknowledge the courtesy of the following museums, publishers. photographers, and organizations.

Why

acknowledgments for volume appear with each reproduction

Full illustration this

or on page 287,

Company: photograph by John Lewis Stage, page 53 (top), courtesy Holiday Magazine, copyright 1959 by The Curtis

Curtis Publishing

Publishing Company, Bijutsu Shuppan-sha: photograph,

page 250,

copyright by Bijutsu Shuppan-sha. Tokyo,

The Fnck

Collection: paintings, pages 34

273. copyright

The

Prick Collection.

New

and York.

Tom

Fnssell: photograph, page 130. copyright by Toni Fhssell. 1955.

William Garnett: photographs, pages 128-129. copyright by William Garnett.

Grandma Moses page

Properties, Inc.

30, copyright

Properties, Inc.,

by

New

painting.

Grandma Moses York.

Yousuf Karsh: photograph, page 270, copyright by Yousuf Karsh Nationalmuseum, Stockholm: painting, page

99,

copyright by the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

New York Graphic page

Society Ltd photograph, New York Graphic Greenwich. Conn :

116, copyright by

Society

Ltd.,

Public Building Commission of Chicago reproduction, pages 278-279, copynght 1967 Public Building Commission of Chicago. All rights reserved

Smeets Lithographers: photograph, pages 102103, copyright by Smeets Lithographers, Weert, Netherlands.

Soho

Gallery photograph, pages 150-151. copyright by Soho Gallery, London.

Time

Inc. photograph by Nina Leen, page 39. courtesy Life Magazine, copyright by Time Inc.; photograph by Dmitri Kessel courtesy Life magazine, pages 108-109, copyright by Time Inc.; photograph by Carlo Bavagnoli courtesy Life magazine, pages 168-169, copyright by Time Inc photography, page 218 (left), courtesy of Time-Life Books, copyright Time Inc.; photograph by Eric Schall courtesy Time Magazine, page 224, copyright Time Inc 1961. ;

Preface Look Again

is

book

a

for children

about

art.

Childhood should be filled with possibilities and personal growth. Art

for self-discovery

helps

fill

A work

this need.

of art

is

a reflection of

as

life

seen through the creative eyes of an artist. An artist can choose the most common everyday experience to mirror, and through his creative imagination, produce a work that teems with excitement. The artist challenges us to "look again" at the world through his eyes and share his feelings about what he sees. And by looking at the world through his eyes, children -and adults — also learn to see creatively.

Each work

of art in this

book has been

selected because it interests children — either because the subject is part of a child's everyday experience or

because

it

is

relevant to a child's natural curiosities

and

interests.

The

text, written at a child's

own

level,

encourages the child to look at each work of art, and then "look again" to gain new appreciation and enjoyment. also

For children. Look Again provides the opportunity to discover, over and over, depths of meaning in the art he sees-

meaning

that

grows with him, as

his

new

own

experiences and interests expand. For parents, this book provides the opportunity to share experiences with their children. Together, parents and children can enjoy the adventure of this book-the adventure that begins with the invitation to "look again."

Lois Raasch Supervisor of Children's Education and in charge of Junior fyiuseum. Art Institute of

Chicago

Editorial Advisory Board for Childcraft-The How and Why Library

Osborn. Ph.D.

William H. Nault. A.B., M.A.. Ed.D.

D. Keith

General Chairman, Editorial Advisory Boards.

Professor of Child Development and

Field Enterprises Educational Corporation

Professor of Education. University of Georgia. Athens Georgia

Joseph R. Christian, M.D. Chairman of Division of Pediatrics. Presbytenan-St. Luke's Hospital.

Chicago, Harold 0.

Drummond,

Ed.D.

Professor of Elementary Education. University of

Special Consultants for Look Again Art Education

Illinois

New Mexico

Leiand Jacobs, Ph.D.

Lois Raasch. B.A. Supervisor of Children s Education, and in charge ot Junior Museum. Art Institute of

Chicago

Readability

Professor of Education.

Frances Norwich. Ph D

Deparlment of Curriculum and Teaching. Teachers College. Columbia University

Writer, lecturer,

Editorial Director

Art Staff

in

and consultant

Children's Education

William H. Naull, Ed-D.

Executive Art Director

Gordon

J

Kwiatkowski

Associate Art Director

Editorial Staff

Donald G

Zeilstra

Executive Editor Robert

O

Zeleny, B A

Assistant Art Director Elizabeth

Managing

Editor

Richard

Alwood, B.S.

A.

Schon

Artist

David N Carothers

Senior Editor Robert

M

Designer Ronald A Stachowiak

Savage

Editors

Esther H Zimmerer. M.SJ. Christine Czurylo,

Michael

P-

B

S-

Photography Director Donald E. Stebbing

McGrath, M.A-

Photographs Editors Bobara Ann Jones, M FA. William Noth. B.A,

Ann Enksen.

M.A.

Research & Services Art Production Editor

Director of

Kenneth

H.

Research & Development Petchenik, MB.A.

Barbara

J

McDonald, B S

Manufacturing Staff Director of Educational Services

John

Sternig,

MA

Philip B. Hall. Executive Director

John M. Babrick. B A Pre-press Manager Henry Koval. B A,, Research Manager Joseph C. LaCount. Production .

Director of Editorial Services Carl

A Tammmen.

MA

LOOK AGAIN Contents 6

The More You Look, the More You See

Artist Paints a Picture

14

An

20

The Family

42

People

70

Land, Sea, and Sky

at

Work

100

Outdoors

130

Animal Fair

190

Imagine This!

216

Fun and Games

246

People

282

List of Artists

286

Books To Read

287

Illustration

Acknowledgments

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The More You Look, the More You See When you

look at a picture,

a statue — or anything

you see

—

with your mind

it

as well as with your eyes. Artists look at things

with their eyes and minds, too.

But they also look

at

things

with their imaginations.

Artists

from

choose shapes and colors and sizes

all

the things they see.

They arrange them, and sometimes change them, to

make

paintings or statues

or other kinds of

When you

look at what an artist has made,

it

can make you

It

may puzzle

or It

make you may

tell

art.

feel

happy or sad.

you, or surprise you, laugh.

you things

about places and peopleeven the

Artists

artist

and

who made

their

works

it.

of art

can help you discover

how

interesting

many

things can be.

8

The More You Look, the More You See

Look

at this

of the

crowds, the

photo rides,

and the side shows

at

a

fair.

Enjoy the whole picture.

What do you see going on?

Now, turn the page.

10

I

The More You Look, the More You See

If

you pretend that you are an

you might want

showing you

just

all

that

looked

to

draw

you see

one

like this:

a picture in

the photo

at.

Or, in your drawing, just

artist,

part of the

you might want to show

photo-

The More You Look, the More You See

Or

you might choose even smaller parts

ones on

that look like the

If

to

you cut a hole

make

you can

in

this page.

a sheet of paper

a small picture frame,

frame around

slide the

on any big picture pictures that you

to find

little

That

something

is

He looks

at

like

like.

what an

artist

does.

the world, and then looks again

to find a picture.

Turn the page

have painted at

to

of

see what

what they

a fair and at a circus.

some saw —

real artists

11

12

The More You Look, the More You See

You can see so much that

you might wonder

what you

Was

at a state fair later

liked best.

the ride,

it

as the horses whirled to the music of the carrousel

Or was lift

it

watching the strong

a thousand

Artists

show

(merry-go-round)?

who

man

pounds?

get ideas for paintings at fairs

the color and the action.

And when you look

at

the paintings,

you remember the fun.

What

pictures

would you paint

Carrousel by Paula Algminowicz. Painted in casein on illustration board

From the collection Oak Park, Illinois.

of Mr.

of a fair?

in

1960.

and Mrs. W. Eugene McCarron,

Country Fair Athlete by Camille Bombois, Painted in oil on canvas, about 1930.

From the National Museum

of

Modern

Art, Paris.

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15

An

Artist

Paints a Picture You can if

paint a picture

you have a brush, some

and a piece

You

paint,

of paper.

dip the brush into the paint-

and away you go!

You

paint a picture of your

mother

or your father or a flower or a In

dog — anything.

a way, you're an

But famous

artist.

had

artists

and learn about a

to study

lot of

things

before they could paint the kinds of pictures that you see

in this

The man you see is

a

His

book.

in this

photograph

famous

Italian artist.

name

Giorgio de Chirico.

is

Turn the page

and see how he paints a

picture.

16

An

Artist Paints a Picture

The of

artist

some

decides to paint a picture

apples, a pear,

some lemons, and some peaches. He arranges the

fruit

on

a white cloth.

Then he gets the paints and brushes that he will

need

and puts them on a

table,

where he can reach them while he paints the picture.

An

Artist Paints a Picture

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The

artist

paints the outlines

Then he begins

of the fruit as well as

to paint in the

the outline of the tablecloth.

and make

Can you see how

He

make

his

brush marks

the lemon look as though

you could hold

it

in

your hand?

is

lemon

look

real.

holding a stick

in his left

to

it

to use colors

keep

hand

his right

hand steady.

17

18

I

An

Artist Paints a Picture

Now, with he paints

and part

When

different colors, in

the other fruit

of the tablecloth.

the picture

is

the artist signs his in

finished,

name

a corner of the painting.

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21

The Family You

are an important part of your family.

So

Father.

So

IS IVlother.

So

are sisters and brothers,

is

grandmothers and grandfathers, aunts and uncles,

and

all

your cousins.

You might even think as almost

In

like

one

of a pet animal

of the family.

the pages that follow,

you

will

some

see the way

artists

have looked

and put them

at families

into paintings

and

statues.

22

The Family

maybe what just

you can

tell

this picture

by looking

at

is

about

it.

Pablo Picasso, a Spanish

wanted you

artist,

to think of this

mother

as a symbol of mothers everywhere

who

love

and protect

their children.

So, he painted a large mother and a large child

and added three things that the world

is

made of-

the land, the sea, and the sky.

Mother and Child by Pablo Picasso. Painted in oil on canvas in 1921. From The Art Institute of Chicago

24

The Family

Look

at

these pages.

A Chinese

made

artist

the vase a long time ago.

An African

artist

carved the statue out of wood.

The vase and the statue look very different

from each other, don't they? But something about both is

the same.

Look again.

Can you

tell

what

it

is?

Ku YOeh HsUan. artist unknown. Porcelain vase enameled In

the 170O's.

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From The Cleveland Museum John L. Severance Fund.

of Art,

Wood

sculpture of mother and child, unknown, from the Luluwa tribe, Kasayl region, Congo, Africa. From the Royal Museum artist

of Central Africa,

Tevuren, Belgium.

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26

The Family

When I

I'm out walking with

my

think he's taller than anything

twice as

tall

father,

—

as me,

and much, much

taller

than

my

dog,

who's much, much smaller than me."

What

is

the tallest thing

in this

picture?

Look again. It

looks as

if

the artist wants you to think

of the father as the tallest.

But you

know

that the far-off hills are In

much

what other way has the

made

the father

seem

artist

tall?

Joseph Gardner and His Son. Tempest Tucker by Jacob Maentel. Painted In watercolor, about 1815,

From the Abby

taller.

Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Williamsburg, Virginia.

28

The Family

This boy had to

sit still

long enough

for the artist to paint his picture.

But

it

wasn't easy.

Doesn't he look as

if

he just can't wait to go out and play?

Young Boy by Ernest Crichlow. Painted In oil In 1960. From the collection of William Branch, New Rochelle. New York.

Grandma" Moses

lived

through 78 Christmases

before she began to paint pictures.

Then she painted about

this picture

the things that she

all

remembered

about Christmas.

Look — and then look again. See how many things you can

find in the picture

that help

you understand

how "Grandma" Moses

felt

about Christmas.

Christmas at Home by "Grandma" Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses). Painted m oil on Masonite In 1946'

Grandma Moses

Properties. Inc

.

New

York,

The Family

Many

Dutch children believe

that St. Nicholas brings toys, cakes,

to

good

and candy

girls

on the Eve

and boys

of St. Nicholas,

December

5th.

Sometimes, children who have not been as

good as they should receive

gifts they'd rather

Look

at

gifts,

too

—

do without.

the picture.

Do you see the

The Feast of

child with the

unwanted

St. Nicholas by Jan Steen. Painted in oil on canvas, about 1665. From the Riiksmuseum, Amsterdam.

gift?

31

32

The Family

Your eyes would probably pop with if

what's happening

happened

picture

your house.

at

But you can

in this

surprise

tell

from the way

the artist painted this picture that this family wasn't

They thought

one

bit

surprised.

of the horse

as one of the family.

Notice

how

casual everybody

is.

Look again, and the picture

You can liked the

You can

tell

tells

which

you other things.

of the children

horse best. tell

whom

the horse liked best.

And perhaps you can

whom

One

the

tell

artist liked best.

of the Family by Frederick George Cotman. in oil on canvas in 1880, From the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, England.

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The Family

Pierre Auguste Renoir liked to paint pictures of pretty

women and

children.

Renoir painted this picture of a

mother and her daughters

when

they were

in Paris,

in

a park

France, almost 100 years ago.

This Mexican mother keeps her baby with her

A

when she makes

tortilla is

flat

a

little,

cake made

You can see

of

round,

dough.

that the

both hands to

roll

tortillas.

mother has

to

use

the dough.

So, she tucks her baby mto the shawl

on her back. There he sleeps, while

Mother and Children by Pierre Auguste Renoir. Painted in oil on canvas, about 1875. The Frick Collection, '

New

York.

Tortillera

by Jean Chariot.

Detail from a fresco

painted in the 1900sFrom the University ot Georgia

Journalism-Commerce Building. Athens. Georgia,

his

mother works.

35

36

The Family

Long His

ago, a busy ruler lived

in Italy.

name was Ludovico Gonzaga.

Ludovico was such a busy man that he hardly to

pose

had time

for a picture

with his family and friends.

He may have kept on working while the

How does

artist

painted this picture.

the picture

tell

you this?

The Marquis of Mantua and his Family by Andrea Mantegna. A fresco painted about 1474. From the Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy.

Do for Is

it

you think an

this

artist to

is

a different

do a picture

way

of a family?

a painting?

Look again. Is

it

a statue?

Look again.

Can you

tell

which parts

of the picture

are painted

and which parts are carved from wood?

The Family by Marisol Escobar. Construction of painted wood and other materials done in 1962

From The Museum

of

Modern

Art,

New

York.

38

The Family

Do

you ever watch people?

Perhaps you look

at

the people

you see on the street or

in

pictures,

and you

try to

guess

what they do and where they

Look

at this

Do you

live.

photo of a family.

think they

live in

the city

or on a farm?

Who Who What

are the oldest?

are the youngest? else can you guess about

And can you guess whose

pictures are on the wall?

Family Portrait.

A photograph by Nina Leen, 1948. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

them?

40

The Family

When he

the sculptor

first

looked

Then he used to

show

in

a

made

this statue

at a real family.

his Imagination

the family

new and

You know

different way.

that

it

is

a statue of a family

as soon as you look at the picture. That's because you look at

it,

not just with your eyes, but also with what you

know about

What makes the mother and

families.

father

seem so strong? What makes you know that they protect the child?

What makes you know that the child

depends upon

his

mother?

Family Group by Henry Moore. A bronze sculpture cast in 1950. From The Museum of Modern Art, New York, A. Conger Goodyear Fund.

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People

at

Work

Firemen and football players have jobs that are exciting. But most people have jobs that in

may

the

not be exciting

same way-

jobs they go to every workday; jobs

in offices

and

factories,

and other places. In this

how

artists

people in

section, you can see

at

have shown

work

many kinds

of jobs.

People

44

at

Work

I

Going

to the store

can be a chore.

So can walking the dog. or doing any small job that you do.

Sometimes, you get paid for

doing chores,

but most of the time you don't. In

France, where people

like

fresh-baked bread every day, bringing IS

one

home

of the

a loaf from the bakery

most

common

chores.

French Bread by Red Grooms. An extension painting on wood done From the Harry N Abrams Family Collection,

New

York

in

1963.

46

People

at

Work

People

It

at

Work

takes more people

may

than you

think

to get a letter to the place

especially

going-

it's

when you send

a letter

overseas.

The

sailors in this picture

are on a ship that

came from across

They are

lifting

bags

the sea.

of mail

from the ship

and passing them to the

men on

The tugboat

the tugboat.

will

carry

the mail to shore.

Can you

find the

names

of cities or countries

the mail

came from?

Transfer of Mail from Liner to Tugboat by Reginald Marsh. A fresco painted in 1935. From the Post Office Department.

Washington, D.C.

47

People

Secf/on men strained shoveling

snow

fronri

their

at

Work

backs

railroad tracks.

Sometimes, they worked night and day -•/"'j-a

before the train was on

And when i^i

the tracks were

way. finally clear,

the train drove off with the engineer.

Now, snowplows but engineers

-m

its

clear

still

away the snow-

make

trains go!

American Railroad Scene: Snow Bound. Currier and Ives lithograph, 1871. From the Coverdale and Colpitis Collection. New York.

49

People

50

at

Work

I

Fire engines belong

Butchers

sell

chickens

Whoever heard

who

sells

Look

at

in a

of a

chickens

in

firehouse.

chicken markets.

butcher in

a firehouse?

the picture.

The butcher is

standing

in

front of a chicken market.

But look again.

The red building looks

The

artist

who

like

painted this picture

must have thought the idea of selling chickens in a

a firehouse.

firehouse was funny.

Do you?

Gallinas Vivas by Robert Sivard.

Painted m oil in 1962 From Michael Stewart. New York, courtesy of Midtown Galleries.

52

People

at

Work

These are

artists at

four sculptors

work-

in their

studios.

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Land, Sea, and Sky

This painting shows you

some

of the

that people travel.

ways

Can you see where the

shows you how while you in

a

sit

to get to the top of a

quite

someone

who

is

still

in

the painting

taking a hike,

and someone who

is

You can see birds

is

think of a

not

shown

riding a bike.

flying.

how do people

Can you that

hill,

box?

Find

But

artist

fly?

way

in

to travel

the painting?

The Magic Mountains by Peggy Burrows. Painted in watercolor and tempera in 1968.

From the

Field Enterprises Educational Corp. Collection.

75

76

Land, Sea, and Sky

This picture

is full

of noise.

The engine chugs. The

train

The

waterfalls roar.

wheels squeal.

Wouldn't

it

be fun

listening to the

train,

sounds

and looking out the at

be on the

to

train

window

Niagara Falls?

Panoramic View

of Niagara Falls

with a Michigan Central Railway Tram

by Robert Painted m

R, oil

Whale. on canvas

From the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jules Loeb, Hull,

Canada.

in

the mid-1800's.

La Gare Painted

St.

Lazare by Claude Monet.

in oil

on canvas

in

1877,

From The Louvre. Pans.

Rolling

Painted

Power by Charles Sheeler. in oil

on canvas

in

1939.

From Smith College Museum Northampton, Massachusetts.

of Art.

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Land, Sea, and Sky

Fewer and fewer steam locomotives pull trains

now.

But not too long ago, it

was

just as exciting

to visit a railway station

as

it

is

to visit an airport today.

You could stand alongside the locomotive and watch the big wheels begin

to roll

as the train moved, and steam and

smoke

,Sl-Lli'v

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Land, Sea, and Sky

What good

is

a

wagon

that can't carry anything? It's

good

for

making you wonder

and use your imagination. IVlaybe that's

who made

Wagon

II

A forged From the

what the

this

artist

wagon wanted you

by David Smith, iron sculpture

estate of the

done

artist.

in

1964.

to do.

81

Land, Sea, and Sky

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A

Hot

desert winds have piled dry sand

against the stone base of the huge Sphinx

near Al Jizah

in

Egypt.

The hot desert sun beats down on the Sphinx and the stone pyramids

in

the distance.

Through the heat and sand

of the desert,

a caravan passes.

Pyramids by Oskar Kokoschka. Painted in oil on canvas in 1929From the William RockhiM Nelson Gallery of Art and the Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City. Missouri.

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84

I

Land, Sea, and Sky

During the War

of 1812,

an American ship and an English ship fought

in a

The name

was the

famous

of the

battle.

American ship

Constitution.

The name

of the English ship

was the Guerriere. Long an of

after the

artist

war was over,

pamted

this picture

what he imagined

the ships looked like during the battle.

Can you

who won

tell

from the painting

the battle?

The Constitution and the Guerriere

Thomas Chambers. Pamted m oil on canvas, about 1845 From The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New by

gift of

Edgar William

and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1962.

York,

86

Land, Sea, and Sky I

In Venice,

Italy,

canals are used

like streets

and people often around the

to get

Venice as

it

ride in boats

still

looks

city.

much

the

same

did long ago,

when

the artist

painted this picture of the

the

"main street" —

Grand Canal.

But one big difference

is

that,

today, you can see motorboats

on the canal.

The Grand Canal with Rialto Bridge by Francesco Guardi. Painted in oil on canvas m the 17O0's. From the Fine Arts Society of San Diego, San Diego, California.

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I

Land, Sea, and Sky

who

Indians

live in

northwestern Canada

use canoes for traveling and fishing.

The canoe It

a useful boat.

can be made to move very

and is

is

a

canoe

light

that holds four people

enough

But a canoe

fast,

is

for

one man

not useful

to carry.

when

it

leaks.

These men are making sure that their

canoe

is

watertight.

They are putting some called resin,

The

fire

for the

sticky stuff,

on the seam

keeps the resin

men

to

spread

Mending the

it

of the

soft

canoe.

enough

with the board.

C.P.R.

Canoe

by Thomas Fripp. Painted in watercolor the late 1800s or early 1900s, From the McCord McGill University, in

Montreal.

Museum,

Land, Sea, and Sky

If

you had

lived in

New England

a hundred years ago,

as these boys did,

men

building a sailing ship

would be an everyday Ship-building. Gloucester Harbor

by Winslow Homer.

A woodcut made

In

1873

for Harper's Weekly.

From the Newberry Chicago.

sight.

The boys are

more

their

interested

in

building

own wooden boats

Library,

to sail in

ponds and

pools.

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The boat

glides

down

the Missouri River

with hardly a sound.

The boy looks

at

the

smooth water,

and he smiles. Even the pet fox looks quiet

and comfortable But look in his

in

the warm, misty

air.

at the fur trader

stocking cap.

Why do you

think he looks so

grumpy?

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by George Caleb Bingham Painted in oil on canvas, about 1845. From The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Morris K, Jesup Fund. 1933.

New

York,

Land, Sea, and Sky

The ocean and boats don't look the in

in this

painting

way they would

a photo.

But as soon as you look

you know that

it

is

at

the painting,

a picture of boats

moving on the waters.

Can you name the in

different kinds of boats

the picture?

The Motor Boat by Lyonel Felninger. Painted in oil on canvas in 1931. From The Cleveland Museum of Art, gift of Julia, v^ife of

Lyonel Felninger.

91

Oome men

have dreamed of

flying

with wings on their backs.

But have you ever dreamed

on a

butterfly or a

or by umbrella, the in

books and

You can in

bumblebee,

way Mary Poppins

did

movie? any way you want

to

a dream,

just as the in

a

travel

of flying

people are doing

these paintings.

Flying

Men

by Francisco Goya.

An aquatint and etching. 1810-1819. From The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924.

Land, Sea, and Sky

Le Jour se Leve Pistons Celestes Descendez by Gertrude O'Brady. Painted In oil on canvas In 1939. From Mr. and Mrs. John W. McBrady, Chicago.

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I

Land, Sea, and Sky

Leonardo da

Vinci

designed a parachute

more than 400 years ago. Scientists to

for

many

years

improve Da Vinci's design and make

Finally, a

to

worked

make

work.

French scientist used a parachute a successful

jump from a tower.

There weren't any airplanes

and the

it

scientist

wanted

to

in

those days,

show

how people could use parachutes to

jump from high buildings

Now

skydivers, like the

one

in in

case

of fire.

the painting,

use parachutes to land safely on earth after

jumping from highflying planes.

Sketch ot parachute done about 1495 by Leonardo da Vincl. Reproduced from // Codice Atlantico in

the collection of

IBfVl

Corporation.

Skydiver 3 by Gerald Laing. Painted in oil

on canvas

in

1964.

From the Harry

N,

Family Collection.

Abrams

New

York.

Land, Sea, and Sky

Ascending Icarus by Hugh WelssPainted in oil

on Masonite

in

1964.

From the collection of Jacques Massol,

Paris.

Photograph by James

B.

Johnson.

Everyone admired Charles Lindbergh's bravery

when he

flew

across the Atlantic Ocean in

a single-engine plane,

something in

like

the

one

the painting above.

Now, people

fly

across the ocean every day

and nobody's surprised, not even

when

they see fighter planes,

such as those

in

the photo,

roar across the sky at

more

than 1,000 miles an hour.

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96

Land, Sea, and Sky

At

first

glance,

the bicycle and

seem

to

its

rider

be standing

still.

But look again,

and you that

will

see

show you

some

that the

things

young man

and the bicycle are moving. For example, look at the foxtail at

the end of the long, thin pole.

What

else

that tells

do you see

you

the bicycle

is

moving?

Young America by Andrew Wyeth in egg tempera on a gesso panel in 1950. From The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Painted

Philadelphia.

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Land, Sea, and Sky

Shoes can have round

toes

or pointed toes or square toes or

but shoes never have ten

except

in this

painting.

The Red Model by Rene Magritte. Painted in oil on canvas '

In

1937,

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

toes —

open

toes,

rttc>-f>*«

'*?fc

«

//

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Animal Fair Animals can be large or small, as round as a ball or as skinny as a stick.

An animal can be

soft

and

furry,

like a kitten,

or hard and prickly, like a porcupine.

An animal can be

swift

and graceful,

like a gazelle,

or slow and clumsy, like a tortoise.

Animals can crawl, creep,

They can

run,

They can be

slither, or slide.

jump, climb, swim, or

friendly.

They can be frightening.

Most

of

That's

make

all,

animals are interesting.

one reason

artists

pictures and statues of them.

After you look at the animals in this

section,

perhaps you can

try to paint

a picture of your pet.

fly.

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Animal

Fair

Elephants, ostriches,

Monkeys and

rabbits

and hogs,

lions,

and zebras and dogs.

Birds and giraffes and camels and bears.

Thousands In

of animals

went

in

by pairs —

through the window

And Until

in

through the door.

Noah's Ark couldn't hold any more.

Each kind

of beast

and each kind

of

bird-

Can you imagine the noise Noah heard?

Noah's Ark by Joseph H, Hidley. Painted m oil on wood, about 1855.

From the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Williamsburg. Virginia.

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X

Animal

This cat and belonged Julie's

its

to a

master, Julie Manet,

well-known family.

mother was Berthe Morisot,

a famous French painter. Julie's uncle

was Edouard Manet,

another famous French painter.

And

the

of Julie

was

man who

painted this picture

and her cat

Pierre

Auguste Renoir,

still

another famous French painter.

Julie

Manet with Cat by

Painted

From

in oil

on canvas

Pierre in

Auguste Renoir,

1887.

a private collection, Paris.

Fair

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136

Animal

Fair

ever see a cat

Did you

that looks like this cat?

head

Its

like

But

on

Siamese

it

has too

its

isn't

It's

white

Siamese cat. an Angora cat

its

head

its

isn't

pointed,

fur isn't long.

not a

because It

cat's head.

much

face

because

and

shaped

a

to be a It

is

Tabby it

has no stripes.

can't be a Calico

because But that

it

it

has no spots.

doesn't matter

it's

not

Siamese or Angora or Calico or Tabby. It's

a "Look Again" cat-

from Japan!

steady Gaze by Kiyosho Saito. A wood block print done in 1948. From The Art Institute of Chicago.

Poor

little

gray mouse!

It's

afraid of cats.

It's

afraid of owls.

It's

always watchful.

Maybe

it'll

have time

to pick a berry,

then scamper away before a cat or an owl

The Japanese "It is

letters

in

Washes

by.

on the picture say:

a joy not to see a

Mouse. Painted

comes

man

of Blacl