Adults can show the young child similarity in style while older readers will enjoy finding the visual surprises themselves. Children experiencing art often seem adjective-deprived. Gladys S. Blizzard, art educator, provides guidelines for a spectrum of ages to help children understand and voice their encounters with paintings. Enjoying Art with Children and Exploring Landscape Art . Her fourth book World of Play , featuring multicultural games in art, will join the others in March.
All paintings are diverse in artist, time and geographical representation.
Other explanations of the art suit slightly older children. For slightly older art observers are Peggy Roalf's Looking at Paintings series. Peggy Roalf, an artist who teaches art to families at the Metropolitan, focuses now Horses and Landscapes . Roalf tells paintings like stories, encapsulating the artist's lives, hopes, fears and artistic choices. Andre Pekarik's Behind the Scenes, a companion to the PBS series for kids, describes art-looking as being a detective.