A friendly and inspiring introduction to art history, telling the stories of the world's greatest paintings and artists from prehistory to the modern day
The Story of Paintings begins with the cave paintings of our Stone Age ancestors and continues through to the modern day. Mick Manning and Brita Granström take your on a tour of their personally selected gallery which showcases the work of some of the world's most famous artists and few a less well-known ones. The artists featured include van Eyck, da Vinci, Bruegel, Rembrandt, Velázquez, JMW Turner, Van Gogh, Monet, Matisse, Georgia O'Keefe, Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Jackson Pollock as well as Dame Laura Knight and Kalan Khan. The friendly text and illustrations help children to appreciate the art, highlighting interesting biographical details and picking out key details to spot. The book's large format means the art is reproduced on a wonderfully impactful scale. This really is a book to give and treasure.
The creative team of Mick Manning and Brita Granström are well-known for their ground breaking children's information books. Their many awards range the TES Information Book Award for What's Under the Bed? and the English Association Non-fiction award for Charlie's War Illustrated.
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Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom are a creative team who work together on both text and illustration. Together they have produced many titles for Franklin Watts and won many awards, including the Silver Smarties prize for The World Is Full of Babies, the Tes information book award for What's Under the Bed? and the English Association non-fiction award for Wa
More about Mick ManningBrita Granstrom has illustrated numerous well-known rhymes for children including "Ten in the Bed" and "Ring A Ring A Roses", as well as "Does a Cow Say Boo?" by Judy Hindley. Brita grew up in Sweden, on a farm by a lake. She now divides her time between England and Sweden.
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