Get to know more than 20 crucial art history innovators and experience how art meets science, from cave paintings to today's advanced tech - then discover their incredible techniques for yourself through 18 different art crafting activities! In Art Alive! with Science, award-winning author Mary Auld explores moments from art history that have expanded our understanding of the way things work, such as the beautiful balance of forces in kinetic sculpture, the interplay of light and shadow in painting and puppetry and how Op Art tricks our brains and plays with our senses. Playful illustrations by Sue Downing appear alongside photos of each artist's work, perfect for drawing in readers age 8 and up. Following each case study, there is a creative project that applies the science learning to the reader's own art practice. Artists and science topics include: Anatomy with Myron's Discobolus (Discus Thrower); Flight with Leonardo da Vinci; Light with Caravaggio's chiaroscuro & wayang kulit shadow puppetry; Colour with expressionism & pointillism; Sound with Paul Klee's Polyphony; Forces with Alexander Calder; Materials with Anish Kapoor; Chemistry with Cai Guo-Qiang's explosion events ... and many more! Artists and science principles inside include: Introduction: Artists and scientists from cave painting to bronze casting; The art of anatomy with Myron's Discobolus (Discus Thrower); Illustrating science with Hildegard of Bingen and Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi; The fantasy of flight with Leonardo da Vinci ; The drama of light with Caravaggio's chiaroscuro and wayang kulit shadow puppetry; The art of nature with Ustad Mansur and Maria Sibylla Merian ; The image in perspective with Johannes Vermeer's The Geographer; The science of clouds with Luke Howard, Caspar David Friedrich and John Constable; The sense of colour with expressionism and pointillism; The structure of flowers with Georgia O'Keeffe; The energy of sound with Paul Klee's Polyphony; The balance of forces with Alexander Calder's kinetic sculptures; The art of astronomy with Galileo, Lucien Rudaux and NASA; The art of light with Pablo Picasso, Gjon Mili and their light drawing collaboration; The art of illusion with Marina Apollonio; The science of materials with Anish Kapoor; The structures of life with Dorothy Hodgkin and Conrad Shawcross; The reactions of chemistry with Cai Guo-Qiang's explosion events; The dimension of time with Jen's Stark's fascinating and mathematical 30 Cubed