Birdcage Books is the publisher of both The Impressionist Art Game and The Renaissance Art Game. Each Art Game comes in an attractive box which opens up like a book and contains an art history book and cards suitable for playing an artistic version of Go Fish or Concentration.
Each playing card contains the image of a different painting. In The Impressionist Art Game the cards feature the art of Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, and Gustave Caillebotte. There are four paintings from each artist making up a deck of 32 playing cards.
In The Renaissance Art Game, the cards feature the art of Fra Angelico, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Raphael Sanzio. There are six paintings from each artist making up a deck of 30 playing cards.
The author of the books is Wenda O’Reilly, Ph.D. This Bay Area author received a Masters degree from Harvard University and a doctorate in education from Stanford. She is the executive director of an out-of-hospital childbirth center. In addition to her writing and lecturing on topics relating to homeopathic medicine, she designs educational games with her daughters. The art games are prime examples of their creativity.
These games make ideal gifts for anyone over the age of seven. The books and cards are colorful. For those of you who, like me, find the tactile qualities of a product important, I will just say that both the books and cards feel good to hold. And the games are downright fun.
Using the accompanying books with the cards makes for an informative experience. Within the art books are biographies of the artists, a timeline, and a two-page spread for each of the paintings found on the cards. A larger image is provided as well as background information on the work. I particularly enjoyed reading the historical tidbits concerning some of the amusing habits of the artists - such as Auguste Renoir using his watercolors to start a fire on cold mornings or Leonardo da Vinci’s practice of following a particularly striking man all day and then later drawing his picture from memory.
To view the game online, visit www.birdcagebooks.com
To order the books, you can visit http://barnesandnoble.com
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