How to talk to children about art  8702

  • Introduction

A good start

  • Developing an interest in paintings
  • Tips for successful visits
  • What to show them, depending on their age
  • 5-7 year olds
  • 8-10 year olds
  • 11-13 year olds

It’s OK not to know

  • Paintings and museums
  • Painters
  • Painting in the twentieth-century
  • Religious art
  • Portraits
  • Mythology, history and allegory
  • Landscapes
  • Scenes from everyday life and paintings of objects
  • The price of a painting

How to look at a picture

  1. The Annunciation   Fra Angelico
  2. The Arnolfini Portrait   Jan van Eyck
  3. St George and the Dragon   Paolo Uccello
  4. The Birth of Venus   Botticelli
  5. The Temptation of St Anthony   Hieronymus Bosch
  6. The Mona Lisa   Leonardo da Vinci
  7. Landscape with St Jerome   Joachim Patenier
  8. Portrait of Charles V at Mühlberg   Titian
  9. Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap   Pieter Bruegel
  10. David with the Head of Goliath   Caravaggio
  11. The Cardsharp with the Ace of Clubs   Georges de la Tour
  12. Apollo and Marsyas   Jusepe de Ribera
  13. Still Life with Fruit and a Lobster   Jan Davidsz de Heem
  14. The Judgment of Solomon   Nicolas Poussin
  15. The Love Letter   Johannes Vermeer
  16. The Colussus or Panic   Francisco de Goya
  17. The Poor Poet   Carl Spitzweg
  18. Rain, Steam and Speed — The Great Western Railway   Joseph Mallord William Turner
  19. The Luncheon   Claude Monet
  20. Women Ironing   Edgar Degas
  21. The Bedroom   Vincent van Gogh
  22. The Birthday   Marc Chagall
  23. The Mechanic   Fernand Léger
  24. Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue   Piet Mondrian
  25. Weeping Woman   Pablo Picasso
  26. Number 3, Tiger   Jackson Pollock
  27. Untitled Blue Monochrome   Yves Klein
  28. The King of the Zulus   Jean-Michel Basquiat
  29. Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho   Francis Bacon
  30. The Girls from Olmo II   Georg Baselitz
  • Resources
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