Provides a handbook for lay people on how to find enjoyment and happiness while looking at art. Includes ideas on where to view art, how to find an art that is pleasing, and tips on talking about art.

A Nico lo inspiran montones de cosas: la tibieza del sol sobre su cara, el dulce sonido del camión de los helados y lo duro que trabaja una mamá petirrojo para cuidar a sus polluelos. También adora dibujar todo eso que le gusta, aunque nadie parece entender muy bien de qué se tratan sus imágenes... "No one understands the abstract pictures that Niko draws until a new friend sees the thought and feeling within his shapes and forms"-- Provided...

Including all of the important art movements from Renaissance to Rococo as well as the great artists from these eras, this book takes readers on an international tour of the world's greatest art form.

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....