How to Understand Art: Art Essentials Love From grinding down beetles and

From grinding down beetles and burning animal bones to alchemy and serendipity

Join our sub-aquatic expedition to follow agile fins and flukes

the catalogue includes a collectively authored text by the exhibition’s curators alongside two conversational texts by guest writers David Garneau and Kimberley Moulton

to Rousseau's exotic forests

Have a go at painting your own sunflowers

How to Understand Art: Art Essentials Love From grinding down beetles andThe visual arts enrich our lives in many ways: bringing innovative ideas and the pleasures of beauty and emotion, but they can also confound. How To Understand Art sets out to enhance the viewers experience by breaking down the elements of art and sculpture to provide a firm basis for simple enjoyment as well as further investigation. With 100 visual examples drawn from across the globe, the stress is on how to assess art objectively a key skill for