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Art SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Ancient Rome
p.20

When you create a picture or sculpture, you are making art. ▸ ▸ Color pp.26–27
Art can show something from real life or the imagination, ▸ ▸ Buildings p.48
and is made of different materials. Throughout history, ▸ ▸ Crafts p.75

people have drawn or painted pictures of the world around ▸ ▸ Photography
p.190
them. Art helps us show our feelings about the world and ▸ ▸ Stone Age p.243
creates beautiful objects to look at.

Painting Bedroom in Arles by Vincent van Gogh, 1888 Landscape at Ceret
Painters use an object such by Juan Gris, 1911
as a brush loaded with
colored paint to create an
image on paper, board, or
canvas. Paintings can be
detailed or simply show lines
and shapes.

Stone Age handprints at
Cueva de las Manos

Cave painting Lifelike painting Abstract painting
The first paintings were made on Many paintings show lifelike images from the Abstract art uses colors and
cave walls around 40,000 years world. This could be an indoor or an outdoor shapes to show amazing pictures
ago. They showed handprints, view, a person, or an object. that aren’t lifelike, but could
people, and animals. show something real.
Dancer Adjusting her Shoe
Sculpture by Degas, c. 1890 The Great Wave by Hokusai, c. 1831
Sculptors work in clay, wood, stone,
metal, or other materials to create
objects. These might show people
or abstract shapes.

Drawing Printing
Artists use pencils, colored Pictures can be cut out of a material
crayons, chalk, charcoal, and ink such as wood and covered in ink or
to draw beautiful images on paper. paint. The ink or paint on the cutout
Drawing is quicker than painting, picture is then transferred onto
Sculpture of a man, so it is a good way of recording paper, to create a print.
from ancient Rome. real-life scenes.
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