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The Art Pack/a Unique, Three-Dimensional Tour Through the Creation of Art over the Centuries: What Artists Do, How They Do It, and the Masterpieces

Helen Frayling; Christopher Frayling; Ron Van Der Meer

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Filled with pop-ups, pullouts, and mobiles, The Art Pack is a completely new way to experience artists use of color, line, composition, perspective, and optics, as well as a lavishly illustrated introduction to the history of Western art.With The Art Pack you can:Examine a three-dimensional model of an artists studio painted by VermeerSee for yourself how an artist solves problems of perspective by using a replica of Alberti's veil and a pop-up viewerBreak up light with a camera obscura and a filtered Claude glassStudy the combinations of colors that produce shades and tones, by manipulating a real color wheelHear (on audiocassette) why the world considers great paintings masterpieces, and see them reproduced in full colorAnd much more!

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