Splat! is the history of art at its most exciting and outrageous.
Organized by artist and covering key events and major movements such as
the Renaissance and impressionism to surrealism and contemporary art, it
is a valuable resource for young art lovers.
Each artist is introduced with bulleted facts including their country of
origin, most famous works, the movement they belonged to, techniques
they employed, and the greatest challenges they faced in creating their
art. This overview offers further insight into who these artists were
and how they changed the course of art history. Here are Michelangelo
and the High Renaissance; Pieter Bruegel and his paintings of everyday
peasant life; Édouard Manet and the shock of impressionism; and Marcel
Duchamp and the Dada revolution. Children can also learn the life
stories of artists, such as Caravaggio, Johannes Vermeer, Henri
Rousseau, Vincent van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, and Frida Kahlo, who
dared to imagine new ways of depicting the world.