Adeline was drawing at the easel and starting producing a series of very expressive blue horses, using no outlines only shapes. I said "Wow! Your blue horses really remind me of some famous paintings I know! I'll find a picture of them to show you". She turned to me and said as if it was no big deal "I'm drawing blue horses like Franz Marc. He was an expressionist". We went on to have quite a conversation about different genres of art and why a blue horse was so revolutionary in it's time. Have I told you how much I love Adeline's school???
A blue horse by Franz Marc, German Expressionist painter of the early twentieth century...
Blue horses by Adeline, First Grader of the early twenty-first century...
Did I ever tell you that I should have been an Art Historian? I was confused in my University years and afraid of change and having a LOT of fun as a Theatre major. I really should have taken the passion I felt in my art history classes and the easy excellent grades I got in all those classes as a sign that I should have re-thought my plans, but I didn't (regrets...I've got more than a few). So you can understand I was pretty excited to be discussing art with my six year old!
wow wow wow!!!
Posted by: Francesca | March 21, 2016 at 04:47 PM