Art Alive! with Science - Get creative with art history and science activity fun! (Paperback)

Get to know more than 20 crucial art history innovators and experience how art meets science, from cave paintings to today's advanced tech - then discover their incredible techniques for yourself through 18 different activities! Get creative for the summer holidays! In Art Alive! with Science, award-winning author Mary Auld explores moments from art history that have expanded our understanding of the way things work, such as the beautiful balance of forces in kinetic sculpture, the interplay of light and shadow in painting and puppetry and how Op Art tricks our brains and plays with our senses. Playful illustrations by Sue Downing appear alongside photos of each artist's work, perfect for drawing in readers age 8 and up. Following each case study, there is a creative project that applies the science learning to the reader's own art practice. Artists and science principles inside include: Intro: Artists and scientists from cave painting to bronze casting; Anatomy with Myron's Discobolus (Discus Thrower); Illustration with Hildegard of Bingen & Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi; Flight with Leonardo da Vinci; Light with Caravaggio's chiaroscuro & wayang kulit shadow puppetry; Nature with Ustad Mansur & Maria Sibylla Merian; Perspective with Johannes Vermeer's The Geographer; Clouds with Luke Howard, Caspar David Friedrich & John Constable; Colour with expressionism & pointillism; Flowers with Georgia O'Keeffe; Sound with Paul Klee's Polyphony; Forces with Alexander Calder; Astronomy with Galileo, Lucien Rudaux & NASA; Photography with Pablo Picasso, Gjon Mili & their light drawings; Illusion with Marina Apollonio; Materials with Anish Kapoor; Structures of life with Dorothy Hodgkin & Conrad Shawcross; Chemistry with Cai Guo-Qiang's explosion events; Time with Jen's Stark's 30 Cubed