Originally published : London : Usborne, 2005

About art -- Making pictures -- Renaissance starts -- Birth of Venus -- Hunters in the snow -- Everyday scenes -- Fruit and flowers -- Perfect portraits -- Wanderer above the sea of fog -- Ophelia -- Moody landscapes -- Ballet dancers -- Water Lilly pond -- Sunflowers -- Circus -- Tiger in a tropical storm -- Scream -- Kiss large blue horses -- Improvisation No. 26 (Rowing) -- Three Musicians -- House by the railroad -- Abstraction white rose -- Splatter paintings -- Snail -- Surreal scenes -- Campbell's soup can (Tomato) -- Pearblossom Highway

An introduction to painting which covers the works of such famous artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol. Includes Internet links

"Internet-linked."

Includes index