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Art Makes People Powerful

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Art Makes People Powerful by Bob and Roberta Smith is a vibrant children's book that celebrates the impact of art on personal empowerment and community expression. Through colourful illustrations and engaging storytelling, it demonstrates how creativity can inspire change, boost confidence, and encourage young readers to explore their imagination and voice. This book aims to ignite a passion for art and foster an understanding of its transformative potential.
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This book may appeal to you if you're looking for a vibrant introduction to the transformative power of art, designed to inspire and engage young readers. Through colourful illustrations and encouraging messages, it shows how creativity can empower children, offering both entertainment and motivation.

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Art Makes People Powerful is an art activity book made by celebrated British artist Royal Academician Bob and Roberta Smith. Through his original artworks, discover just how art makes people powerful.

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This is an amazing art activity book for kids made by celebrated British artist and Royal Academician Bob and Roberta Smith, which explores how art makes people powerful. Through his original artworks, discover just how art helps people to learn, through beautifully painted artworks that double as prompts for us to create beautiful art of our own.

Completing activities on and off the page, young readers can't help but to be creative, all while using very few materials and employing methods based on art historical principles to grow and reflect on themselves as well as their creative journey. Prompts are painted in Bob and Roberta Smith's unique and distinctive style, in bright and bold colours, which will stimulate children's visual imaginations, making this a beautiful object of art as well as a brilliant collection of creative prompts.

From painting the big bang and the universe expanding to drawing ourselves as well as our ideas, this beautiful book will show us the power inherent in artistic acts, and that we can unlock in ourselves.

'A rallying cry for humanity [...] encouraging young children to draw, and lots more.' - Times Radio

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The book Art Makes People Powerful by Bob and Roberta Smith is praised for being an engaging art activity book that encourages children aged six and up to explore their creative abilities. It's described as a motivating call for humanity, promoting drawing and other activities for young children. The book is noted as an exuberant workbook and is recommended for enjoyable drawing sessions that could entice even older siblings to participate.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780711265394

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wide Eyed Editions

Illustration: color illustrations

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 215.0mm

Height: 281.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 192

About the Author

BOB AND ROBERTA SMITH OBE RA (real name Patrick Brill) is the name of the British artist whose best known works include: Make Art Not War, which belongs to the Tate collection; and Letter to Michael Gove. His work is held in collections around the world including MoMA. His book You Are an Artist was published by Thames & Hudson in 2020 to great acclaim. He is an activist, campaigning for art education and the public ownership of art. He was awarded an OBE in 2017 for services to the arts.

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