It hurts to cut the skin or stick a pin in it. But some people don't care how much it hurts, if they think it makes them look beautiful! In Mozambique, on the eastern coast of Africa, there are...
Beads and bracelets
In the steamy forests of Brazil, the Indians wear hardly any clothes---or no clothes at all. But they love to dress up. How do they do it? They wear lots of jewelry. But their jewelry isn't the kind...
Beauty is how we think of it
Every culture has its own kind of art. A temple carving in Taiwan is different from a carving on a temple in India. A Japanese painting is different from a French painting. And a Danish statue...
Which do you like best?
Some people like decorated things. They fill their houses with carved and painted furniture. They hang fancy lights from decorated ceilings. They put lots of pictures on the walls. They cover the...
Can you “read” the pictures?
Look at the elephant! Do you see the soldiers on the prancing horse? No, it's not a parade. These are pictures painted on a house in India. Other pictures tell about the family in the house---if you...
Underground palaces
Imagine you are riding clown an escalator. Suddenly you are deep underground. Instead of a dark, damp place, you are in a magnificent room. It might be the inside of a palace. Where are you? You are...
Moving colors
For hundreds of years, fishermen have decorated their boats. Some fishermen like broad, colorful stripes or beautiful flowers on their boats. Others like pictures of saints or mermaids. Still others...
Pictures to walk on
Every day, thousands of busy people hurry back and forth over city sidewalks. They hardly ever look down at the gray concrete beneath their feet---except to avoid tripping over a crack or a bump. ...
Eye-catching walls
There is a beautiful village about 30 miles from the city of Pretoria, South Africa. It stands in the middle of wild country called the bush. In the village, the people of the Ndebele tribe live in...
The Way We See It
Thousands of years ago, a person dressed in animal skins painted pictures on the wall of a cave in France. The paints were made of powdered red rock and black charcoal. These were mixed with fat to...
