Addresses such interesting questions as: 'What is Art?', 'It looks like a photograph - It must be art!', 'My five year old could do that!', 'Art is useless!' and 'What makes this a great painting?'
and much more.

It also deals with colour, composition and even how to decifer symbols and signs in a painting. The real use of this book is for those who wish to gain an understanding of all those colours, lines, textures, objects etc that really make a painting work.

Contents:
Introduction
Why bother looking at art?
What is Art?
Public Utterances
The three Elements of Art
Ist Element: Form
How the Elements of Form work together
2nd Element of Art: Content
3rd Element of Art: Context
And Finally over to you
Quick Gallery Guide
Picture Credits

The book is A4 in size (29.5cm x 21cm) has 48 pages, a stiff card cover and is lavishly illustrated.