SHAPES IN ART

A series of books that is very useful for showing children paintings by a variety of important artists is the, "I Spy" series.
"I Spy Shapes in Art" has a collection of pictures of paintings by artist's such as Kandinsky, Matisse, Hockney, Homer, Torres-Garcia, and Warhol, amongst others. On each page there is a shape to look for in the picture.
Some other in the series are I Spy - Animals in Art, An Alphabet in Art, Numbers in Art, Transport in Art and Colours in Art.
I like this series of books because they can be used an a variety of ways: simply looking for the objects inside, using a painting as the basis for writing, and paintings such as Henri Matisse's snail can be used as examples to begin an art task. The book gives a reason to look carefully at different styles of art in a fun way.