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This colorful, lively, and endlessly
entertaining book for children looks
at artistic illusion showing that art
history is rife with tricksters. If seeing is believing, then artists might be the biggest liars of
all. Painters, sculptors, and photographers often try to
convince their audiences that the paint is wet; the fruit is real;
the window is open; the figure s eyes are foll... More

This colorful, lively, and endlessly
entertaining book for children looks
at artistic illusion showing that art
history is rife with tricksters. If seeing is believing, then artists might be the biggest liars of
all. Painters, sculptors, and photographers often try to
convince their audiences that the paint is wet; the fruit is real;
the window is open; the figure s eyes are following you around
the room. This fun and informative book takes young readers
on a thematic tour of art as illusion. From the Parthenon
through examples from nearly every major movement and
culture, vibrant works of art are revealed to contain visual
tricks, puns, hidden clues and just plain deceit. Seurat s
pointillism, da Vinci s mysterious Mona Lisa, Magritte s playful
paintings-within-paintings, and Duane Hanson s eerily realistic
statues are all explored in detail to discuss the techniques,
styles, use of perspective and composition that implore us to
look at them again and again. Filled with ideas for do-ityourself
optical projects, each chapter focuses on a theme
such as color, hidden pictures, and surrealism. Designed with
the curious eye in mind, this book will introduce young readers
to beguiling works of art with fresh insight and a new way of
appreciating some of the world s most important works of art.

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