This exciting art title focuses on how artists use light in their paintings. This book uses some of the most famous and best-loved artists of all time to show how their paintings reflect dramatic light, mysterious light, cold light, hot light, dappled light, rainy light, light patterns, light shapes and other forms of light.

This book is part of a book series called Look .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd .

Gillian Wolfe is the Head of Education at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. Her innovative education programme there has an international reputation for excellence and originality, for which Gillian was awarded the MBE. Her publications for the Gallery won the 1997 Gulbenkian Award for Best Museum Publication. She is a passionate and experienced communicator of the joys of art to young people.

This book has the following chapters:

Look at dramatic light . 8

Look at mysterious light . 10

Look at cold and hot light . 12

Look at dappled light . 14

Look at rainy light . 16

Look at stormy and calm light . 18

Look at reflected light . 20

Look at light patterns . 22

Look at light shapes . 24

Look at light textures . 26

Look at light lines . 28

Look at light solids . 30

Look at light contrasts . 32

Look at highlights . 34

Look at night lights . 36

Look at heavenly light . 38

Look it up . 40.

Index . 45.