PlayART
© 2012 Tapook Digital Publishing
Elementary and middle school art teachers take note: this app turns your iPad into a classic-art flannel board, stocked with the key elements from five artists -- Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Henri Rousseau and Paul Klee. You can either try to recreate the original masterpiece by dragging and dropping the elements, or compose your own. Content includes 100 elements and 25 canvasses, from the artists’ original paintings. You can tap, drag, flip, stamp or resize the elements on the different backgrounds to quickly experiment with different visual styles. Finished products can be saved in “My Museum” for later sharing on social media sites. An Artists Museum contains original paintings and a short child-narrated video biography about each artist. Need to know: The sound effects and music are strange but they can be muted, and the interface takes some getting used to. See http://youtu.be/NeeYiP9s4pU.
$3.99, iPad
Teaches: classical art, creativity
CTR Rating: 86%