Our World
In Art
Richard Northcott
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Introduction

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1 Cities

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2 Indoors

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3 Outdoors

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4 Sti LL Lifes

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5 Machines

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6 Light

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7 Movement

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8 Art in Our World

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Activities

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Projects

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Glossary

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About Read and Discover

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Artists heLp us to Look at our worLd. They Look at pLaces
and peopLe, and then they show them in pictures. Artists
aLso show smaller things - flowers, fruit, or birds.
Artists don't onLy make pictures. Sometimes they make
scuLptures with stone, metal, or wood.
What things from our worLd do artists show in art?
What types of art do you know?
What is your favorite type of art?

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Now read and discover
more about our worLd in art!

Cities are interesting places. There are lots of different
buildings. Cities are also full of people, and all the
people are different. Artists have always been interested
in cities and in the people who live in them.

A City from Outside
In about 1600, an artist called EI Greco painted
a picture of Toledo, a city in Spain. Toledo was an
important city at that time. There were great buildings
there. EI Greco's painting shows Toledo from the
countryside. The city looks quiet. The sky is dark and
there's going to be a storm, but the city looks strong.

Inside a City
N ow let's go inside a city. There are streets and
buildings, and there are lots of people. It's fun to
watch people in cities, and artists like painting them.

In 1876, Gustave Caillebotte painted some people
on a bridge in Paris. A man and a woman are crossing
the bridge and talking. Another man is leaning on the
bridge and watching something. A dog is walking
across the bridge, too.
When we look at this painting, we think that we are
on the bridge. We think this because the artist h as
used p erspective .

P

rsp ctive

vanishing point

You can 't go inside
a pa inting. It's just a picture
on a fl at p iece of paper or
canvas. ometimes we think
thal we' re in sid e a p ainting,
becau se the artist h as used
perspective . When there's
per pective th e lines in a picture go to a place
on th e horizon, called the vanishing point.
T his p ainting of N ew York is by Hippolyte Sebron.
The tops of the buildings, the windows, and the lines
in the snow go to the vanishing point. The vanishing
point looks far away, but the horses look near.
Now look again at the painting on page 5. Where is
the vanishing point?

Artists don't always use perspective. When there's
no perspective, everything looks near. There's no
vanishing point, and there are no buildings far away.
A Russian artist called Natalia Goncharova painted
this big picture of a Russian city. It was scenery for
a ballet. There are hundreds of towers and domes in
her painting, but there's no perspective .

Artists can play with
perspective and make amazing
shapes. Look carefully at this
shape. Which is the front of the
shape? Which is the back?
.. Go to pages 36- 37 for activities.

A painting of the inside of a building is called an interior.
When artists paint interiors, they often use perspective
so that we can see through one room into another room.

M Kong' House
In this interior from China, we can see a big room
with tables, chairs, and five big lamps. At the back
of the room there are two doors. We can look
through the doors and see another, smaller room.
The room is in the house of a rich man called
Mr Kong. Maybe he's the man in the blue coat
who's playing a type of guitar, but we don't really
know. We also don't know the name of the artist.
Usually, artists write their signature in small letters
on their paintings, but not always.

The Boy with the Bre d
One day, a boy went to the baker's for some bread.
Then he went to a big house, walked through the
courtyard, and knocked on the door. A woman
opened the door and took the bread. We see this
little story in this painting by a Dutch painter called
Pieter de Hooch.
The artist used perspective to show us the house,
the courtyard, and the street outside. Look at the
lines on the floor. They go to a vanishing point that's
behind the building and far away.

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·gh from Outside
In this interior, the artist shows a room in Cairo in
Egypt, lon g ago. Two young women are watching an
old man, wh o is writing in a book.
Look ca refully at this painting and you will find lots
of sma ll interesting things. For example, three cats
are sleep ing on the fl oor. They like this place because
it's warm . We can 't see outside, but we know that it's
sunny. T he arti t shows th e sunlight that's coming
through the d oor.

Stores
Busy stores are fun because lots of things happen
there. Customers look, talk, and buy things. Sales
clerks help the customers, show them things, and
take their money. Stores are interesting places, so
artists like painting them.
A Spanish artist called Luis Paret y Alcazar was
born in 1746. He painted this store interior where
lots of things are happening. There's a woman in a
beautiful dress. A little baby wants to touch h er. A
man is sitting and a sales clerk is showing h im things.
These people are important customer s, so everyon e
in the store is busy.
... Go to pages 38-39 for activities.

Paintings of the countryside are called landscapes.
In a landscape, the people are usually very smaLL,
and sometimes there aren't any people. The most
important thing in a Landscape is the countryside.

Many artists like painting mountains. Sunlight
and shadows on mountains can look amazing.
Jose Velasco was born in Mexico in 1840. He painted
beautiful landscapes of mountains. In this landscape,
Jose Velasco puts big shapes together. Near us there
are some plants. They are big, bright, and green.
Far away, there's a mountain, with snow on the top.
It looks big and cold.

Oceans and Islands
Ando Hiroshige was born in Japan in 1797. He
painted busy streets, but he's also famous for his
landscapes and pictures of the ocean. His pictures
often surprise us because he put very different
shapes together. He liked putting big, strong
shapes at the front of his paintings.
For example, look at his picture of
A Plate from China
the ocean. The biggest things in
the picture are the waves, and
they look very near.
There are beautiful landscapes
in Chinese art, too. Some of
them are on bowls and plates.
This plate shows lots of small,
rocky islands with houses.

Old Maps
A map shows the roads, rivers, and cities in a country.
In the past, maps were different from maps today. The
artists painted little pictures on the maps.
Look at this map from 1625. It shows the southeast
coast of North America. For the mountains, the artist
painted lots of little mountains. For the forests, there
are tiny trees. The artist drew lines to show the water
in the ocean. Can you see the three ships?

P ople in a andsca
When Italian artists painted an important person, they
often painted a beautiful landscape behind the person.
Benozzo Gozzoli was a painter from Florence, now in
Italy. He was born about 600 years ago. He painted
this picture of a rich and important man with his
friends. They are riding though the
countryside. This landscape is
very clean and pretty.
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Benozzo GozzoLi put his face
in his painting . He's this man who
is wearing an orange hat. Can you
find him in the big painting?
.. Go to pages 40- 41 for activities.

Paintings of flowers are called still lifes. A still life
can also be a painting of food, bottles, or musical
instruments - anything that doesn't move and is still.

Fowers
Everyone can draw a flower. You just draw five or
six petals and color them. That's easy, but try to
paint flowers like the ones in this painting. That's
much harder!
This beautiful still life is by Jan van Kessel, an artist
from Flanders, in northern Europe. He was born in
1626. If you look carefully, you can also see some
animals. There's a butterfly and a parrot.

ood
This still life with fruit is by Paula Modersohn-Becker.
She was born in Germany in 1876. There's a big piece
of melon, some pears, an orange, and maybe some
strawberries. This still life is very different from the
painting by Jan van K.essel. The artist didn't use many
colors. There's no pretty bowl and no butterflies. We
can't see the front of the table, so the fruit looks near.
Behind the fruit, the edge of the table looks like the
horizon. The shapes of the fruit are as strong as the
shapes of rocks or mountains in a landscape painting.

Shapes and Shado
The paintbrushes in Grinling Gibbons's sculpture
look like real paintbrushes. The guitar in this painting
doesn't look like a real guitar. This guitar is a funny
shape. It's on a table, and the table is a funny shape,
too. The black shadows on the table and on the floor
are big, strong shapes.
This still life is by a Spanish artist called Juan Gris.
He painted it in 1920. Things in Juan Gris's paintings
often have funny shapes. They surprise us, so we think
about them more.

Woo

Sculptures

Not all stilllifes are paintings. This wooden sculpture
is a still life. The paintbrushes and the tools are made
of wood. The book is a very thin piece of wood. The
artist used sharp tools, but he didn't break the wood.
That's really amazing!
The artist was called Grinling Gibbons. He was
born in 1648 in the Netherlands. He went to the
United Kingdom when he was about 20 years old,
and he made sculptures for big houses and important
buildings. He died in 1721, but his family still makes
beautiful things with wood.
Go to pages 42-43 for activities.

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Machines can be beautifuL. Planes are smooth and shiny,
so maybe they are beautiful machines. What about the
engine in a car? Engines are often dark and dirty. Are car
engines beautiful? What do you think?

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An artist from Ukraine called Grygoriy Shyshko
p ainted a building site in 1966. He painted cranes
and other big machines. In front of the machines
there's a man who works on the site. He looks
relaxed with these machines. This isn't a pretty
picture, but the artist shows us an interesting
moment. People and machines are working together.

In the museum in Detroit in the U SA, you can see
27 big paintings by a famous M exican artist called
Diego Rivera. The paintings show workers in a car
factory. Detroit is famous for its car factor ies.
The artist shows us people's movem en ts wh en
they work with machines. The factory looks like
one big machine, but the workers are not rob o ts.
Diego Rivera's people are all different. They are
interesting and sometimes funny. They are people
like you and me!
The paintings are called Detroit Industry. Diego
Rivera painted them on the walls of the museum
in 1933. Paintings on walls are called murals.

De troit Industry. nort h wall. 1933
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Try drawing a person, then try drawing a robot. How
are people and robots different from each other?
Robots are made of metal. They have lots of straight
lines. People h ave soft hair and soft skin, but robots
arc hard.
When artists make robots, they use materials that are
u sually in machines - materials like metal and plastic.
This sculpture of a robot is made from old machines
and parts of machines. There are pieces of computers.
There's also part of a calculator. Can you find it?
A Sculpture of a Robot

Flying Machines
In 1452, an artist called Leonardo da Vinci was
born in Florence, now in Italy. He was interested in
machines. He had lots of ideas for flying machines,
and he drew them in his notebooks. This is amazing
because Leonardo da Vinci lived about 400 years
before the first planes! In about 1490, he drew this
idea for a flying machine. It looks like a helicopter.
Leonardo da Vinci was an amazing man. He was
interested in everything - machines, animals, science,
and the human body. He was one of the greatest
artists of all time.

Leonardo da Vinci wrote with
his left hand. He also wrote from
right to left. The writing in his
notebooks looks like writing
reflected in a mirror.
.. Go to pages 44-45 for activities.

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There are different types of Light - Light from the sun
or the moon, eLectric light, and Light from candles. With
pencils and paints, artists can show these different lights.

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A l:' rcnch arti st called Georges de la Tour was good at
pa inting the light of candles. He painted this picture
of a mother and her baby in about 1650. The room is
dark, but one of the women has a candle. We can't see
the candle because the woman's hand is in front of it.
We can see candlelight on the baby's head. The artist
used different colors to show light and shade.

Reflections
Light shines on people's faces and clothes, then it
bounces off. This is called reflection. Painters use
reflections to show different types of fabric in people's
clothes. For example, in about 1512, an artist called
Titian painted this portrait of a man. The man is
wearing a jacket made of a soft, shiny fabric. If you look
carefully at the man's arm, you can see the different
gray colors that show the reflections from his jacket.
Titian was from Venice, now in Italy. He was good at
mixing paint and making new colors.

Moo I"g t
Moonlight is not as bright
as sunlight. When the moon
shines, there are no colors.
Everything is gray. In 1938,
a Japanese artist called
Kawase Hasui drew a
garden in the moonlight.
We can 't see the moon in
his picture, but we know
that the moonlight is strong
because he used different
gray inks for the garden.

sharp tool

This type of picture is
called a woodblock print.
To make a woodblock
print, artists draw on flat
pieces of wood. Then they
cut the wood with a sharp
tool, to make the different
parts of the picture. They
put ink on the wood, then
press a piece of paper on
it. They use a different
piece of wood for each
color, but they press the
same piece of paper on
each piece of wood.

Su lig t
The sun is shining. People are sitting by the river. It's
a hot day. No one wants to move. Georges Seurat was
a French artist who painted this picture of people by
the river near Paris in 1884. The painting is made of
thousands of little dots. G eorges Seurat used these
dots to give the idea of bright sunlight.

Georges Seurat painted different
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People in paintings don't move, but artists can
use lines and shapes to give the idea of movement.
Let's look at some examples.

Da

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In this painting of dancers, the artist shows us the
movements of a crowd. The crowd is dancing at
a party or a rock concert. The dancers are moving
fast. How many people are there in this painting?
It's hard to know. We can see heads, arms, and legs
here and there, but most of the bodies join together
in the movement and we can't see them very well.
This painting is by an artist from Nigeria called
Bayo Iribhogbe. He painted it in 2000.

In a soccer match, there
are lots of different
movements at the same
time, like running,
jumping, and kicking.
In 1908, a French artist
called Henri Rousseau
painted some soccer
players. Each player is
moving in a different way,
but they are all watching
the ball. They look funny
because they are wearing striped clothes. They are
playing a funny type of soccer, too. One player is
touching another player, who is going to touch the ball!
Umberto Boccioni was an Italian artist. In his drawing
of a cyclist, he shows lots of movement. The cyclist's
legs are moving very fast, so it's hard to see then'}.

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We can't see wind, but we can
see what it does. Trees bend,
leaves go everywhere, and
people's hats flyaway!
An Austrian artist called
Ida Schwetz-Lehmann made
these small sculptures of women
in 1926. She uses the women's shapes to give us the
idea of a strong wind. Their bodies are bending, and
they are holding their hats to stop them blowing away.
You can't see the horizon in this painting of a storm
on the ocean. The water and the sky join together,
and the waves are enormous. The artist's name
is Ivan Aivazovsky, and he was from Russia. He
painted this storm in 1868. He mixed gray, white,
and green colors to show the strong movements of
the wind and the water.

Speed
When you're in a fast car or a train, try looking at
the ground outside. You can't really see it. It's just
lots of lines that move very fast.
A British artist called Philip William May painted
this car in 1929. This was the fastest car in the
world at that time . We think that we are moving
at the same speed as the car. We can see the car
well, but the ground is made of lots of lines.

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Go to pages 48- 49 for activities.

Are there any sculptures or murals in a town that you
know? It's fun when art is part of the place where we
live. Streets and parks are more interesting if there's
art for everyone to enjoy.

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In Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, there's a b eautiful park
called th e Cornich e. It's n ear the ocean and it's full of
amazing art . One artist h as u sed old boats to make a
type of sc ul ptu re . fhe boats are on big, white blocks.
T h ey are n ear the ocean, but they can't sail away.
T his typ e of sculpture is called an installation. In
installations, artists use things that we know, but they
show them in a new and different way.

G"ant Bees
The walls of big buildings are a good place for
sculptures or installations. Everybody can see
them when they visit the building, or if they are
just walking by.
On the front of a building in Melbourne in Australia,
there are some big, golden bees made of m etal.
There's one big bee at the top, and 12 smaller b ees.
The sculpture is by an Australian artist called Richard
Stringer. He thinks that a city is like a b eehive . The
people who live there are always with lots of other
people, like bees in a beehive.

Park
In Barcelona in pa in, there's a
big sculp tu re by a Spanish artist
called Joan Mira . The sculp ture
is in a park, and it's called
Woman and Bird. Joan Mira
started with the idea of a woman
and a bird, then he played with
different shapes and colors. He
loved bright, sunny colors, like
red and yellow. He used them
in many of his paintings and
sculptures. For Woman and Bird,
he used thousands of bright,
colored tiles.
Joan Mira was 89 years old when
he made this sculpture. He's very
famous in Spain. His art is in
museums all around the world.

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In 1995 two artists wrapped a building! Christo
and Jeanne-Claude wrapped the parliament building
in Berlin, the capital of Germany. They used more
than 100,000 square meters of fabric, and more
than 15 kilometers of rope. The building looked like
a big parcel.
The wrapping only stayed on the building for about
two weeks. In that time, thousands of p eople came
to see the building and took photos. They knew the
building well, but th ey saw it in a new way.
Art shows our world in a d iffe rent way. W h en we look
at our world in art, we can learn something n ew.
Go to pages 50- 51 for activities.

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