How to Talk to Children About Art

"A simple, easy-to-use primer." --NEA Today "A primer on art history and valuable tips to make a visit to a museum with children a success." --Treasure Valley Family "Provides many ideas to help make that visit to the art museum a pleasant experience for everyone." --Chicago Parent "A wonderful guide." --Omaha World-Herald "Takes a great idea and executes it effectively." --Kliatt "An accessible entrance to usher children into the world of art, specifically preparing them for museum visits and any questions." --Violet "An excellent resource for art gallery or museum visits." --BC Parent

Francoise Barbe-Gall studied history of art at the Sorbonne and also at the Ecole du Louvre, where she now teaches. She also directs an association called CORETA (Comment Regarder un Tableau), for whom she gives many lectures. She is regularly called upon to participate in management workshops, where her experience of analysing images in relation to publicity and marketing is called upon. Editions de l'Agenda de L'Empresa have published a collection of her articles, and she is the author of several articles on the work of the sculptor Tom Carr. She is the author of How to Talk to Children about Art and How to Understand a Painting, both published in English by Frances Lincoln. Translator Karine Leroux studied art and European languages in France and lives in the UK. She regularly translates exhibition catalogues and wall texts for major art galleries in the UK, France and occasionally the USA, as well as articles and essays for art magazines and publishers.

Artworks discussed: Perugino, The Marriage of the Virgin - Musee des Beaux-Arts, Caen, France Michelangelo, Awakening Slave - Galleria dell' Accademia, Florence, Italy Tintoretto, The Origin of the Milky Way - National Gallery, London, United Kingdom Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors - National Gallery, London, United Kingdom Poussin, Dance to the Music of Time - Wallace collection, London, United Kingdom Greuze, The Son Punished - Musee du Louvre, Paris, France Joseph Benoit Suvee, The Invention of the Art of Drawing - Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium David, Napoleon in his Study - National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States JMW Turner, The Fighting Temeraire - National Gallery, London, United Kingdom John Everett Millais, The Blind Girl - Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Monet, Women in the Garden - Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France Manet, Portrait of Zola - Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France Degas, The Orchestra at the Opera - Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States Van Gogh, Irises - Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, United States Gerome, Pygmalion and Galatea - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States Picasso, Acrobat on a Ball - Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia George Bellows, Stag at Sharkey's - Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States Kandinsky, Picture with an Archer - Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States Giorgio de Chirico, Piazza d'Italia - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada. Braque, Fruit Dish and Cards - Musee National d'art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris Vallotton, Verdun - Musee de l'Armee, Hotel national des Invalides, Paris, France Edward Hopper, House on the Railroad - Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States Rene Magritte, Man with a Newspaper - Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom Norman Rockwell, The Problem We All Live With - Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachussets, United States Alberto Korda, Heroic Guerrilla - Photograph, Havana, Cuba Pistoletto, Venus of the Rags - Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom Anselm Keifer, Book with Wings - Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, United States Yue Minjun, Untitled (Sky) - Fondation Cartier pour L'art Contemporain, Paris, France Cy Twombly, The Ceiling - Musee du Louvre (Salle des Bronzes), Paris, France