A dancer performs the Soetkankan Thullal a solo dance style with origins in India Lindsay Hebecois
The Arts TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 THE ART OF MOVEMENT THE ART OF SEEING Dance Moving to Rhythms 42 Painting Art of the Mind's Eye 6 Maria Tallchief America's Prima Ballerina 44 Hiroshige Artist of the Floating World 8 Diego Rivera Murals of Mexico 10 THE ART OF WRITING Sculpture The 3 D Art 12 Literature Writing for the Ages 46 Auguste Rodin The Modern Michelangelo 14 Lewis Carroll Folk Arts and Crafts Traditions of Creativity 16 The Man Who Created Wonderland 48 Architecture The Art of Building 18 LM Poi Grand Architeet 20 THE ART OF PRETENDING Theater Life Re created on a stage 50 THE ART OF HEARING Judi Dench A Commanding Actress 52 Musical Instruments Music Making Methods 22 Cinema Dreams on the Big Screen 54 Orchestra A Company of Players 24 Satyajit Ray Indian Cinema for the World 56 Opera A Grand Musical Play 58 Folk Music Music of Everyday Life 26 Ladysmith Black Mambazo Joan Sutherland Australia's Golden Voice 60 GLOSSARY 62 The South African Sound 28 INDEX 63 Popular Music Music of an Era 30 Jazz The Music of Change 32 Count Basie An Aristocrat of Jazz Carlos Santana Rock Guitarist 36 Classical Music A Very Formal Music 38 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart A Life Filled with Music 40 LEARNING LIBRARY
Art of the Mind's Eye e most painting is a two dimensional or flat work of visual art It is created by applying some form of color or paint to a surface Some artists paint what they see around them Others paint pictures that they see in their imagination The idea on which a painting is based is called its theme Some paintings have a religious theme For example on famous paintings in the world Leonardo da Vinci s Last Supper shows Jesus Christ sharing his final meal with his disciples Other paintings show famous legends and events in history Or they show landscapes animals or even scenes from daily life Many Chinese scroll paintings take landscapes and nature as their themes Artists also paint portraits or pictures of people Sometimes they paint pictures of themselves Such paintings are called self portraits Some painters express ideas and feelings through lines shapes colors and textures that don't look like anything you could recognize Such paintings are called abstract paintings Painters use many materials in their works These include oil Left Navajo man making a sand painting Right Classroon artist in training paints acrylics watercolors pastels inks dyes and enamel paints Painters use different tools to apply these colors like brushes of various sizes and flexible tools called palette knives You probably know that many paintings are made on canvas or paper But paintings can also be applied to different surfaces Murals are paintings on walls both indoors and outdoors Frescoes are wall paintings made on wet plaster And some Native Americans paint without paint in an art known as sand painting In Islamic countries and in East Asia especially Japan Korea and China calligraphy the art of beautiful writing is a skill equal to painting Calligraphy is usually done in ink using a brush LEARN MORE READ THESE ARTICLES FOLK ARTS AND CRAFTS DIEGO RIVERA SCULPTURE
PAINTING DID YOU KNOW Early humans made paintings on the walls of caves some 15 000 years ago be seen in France Spain and other Some of those can parts of Europe paintings still iiiii CH L Find and correct the error in the following sentence Calligraphy is a self portrait done in ink A young artist works on a painting in a public exhibit at the Palace of Fine Arts in Santiago Chile O Pablo Corral V Corbis yuy uy auop RIM IRNeady sy KaydenEye easury
