"Getting to Know…" series

I personally haven’t bought any of them. We have just used them from the library at times. They are quite short.

My boys have really enjoyed them.  They are short, but I’m okay with that.  Some people would prefer to read a long biography but this works for us, for now.  In the artist books there are cartoons as well as many of the artists pictures.  In all the series they talk about their life, some of the challenges in their work and a little about other artists of the same time or why this particular artist/composer changed history.  Actually, all the books have silly cartoons which my boys adore.

It may be a personality thing.  This series has inspired my boys to love art and composers.  They read these for fun.  They try to copy the pictures.  I buy them (about 4 of them every 2 or 3 months) because the boys look through them so often.

In the grand scope of things I don’t know that my kids will need much more than a short biography such as this.  They are more likely to work in a science field than the arts.

Most of the art books are edited well.  For Titian they mentioned that he did a lot of paintings that would be considered PG-13 and only showed those that were appropriate.  Thus far the only one I’ve had a problem with was Botticelli with the Birth of Venus.  A lot of parents wouldn’t have an issue with that though.

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