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To: BenLurkin

Better parenting required. But taking children to museums early is essential, not so they can understand the artist (stupidest thing I’ve read lately, I’ll be Jackson Pollock’s shrink if I want to try to understand him), but so they can enjoy art for a lifetime.

Visits should be quick when they are young, look at what catches their eyes and then leave. I had my six year olds drawing their favorite thing from the masterpieces - four days a week was a practice drawing, and Friday was the final piece drawn in a special art journal (that they still have today). It was an exercise in drawing, in appreciating what you see, and a first step to a love of art.


8 posted on 05/28/2016 11:12:50 AM PDT by greatvikingone
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To: greatvikingone
"I’ll be Jackson Pollock’s forensic shrink..."

Years ago, I was with the then-wife and her parents at Chicago's Art Institute. The FIL grabbed me, and asked me about some Pollock painting, iirc. I had no idea. I told him to write the name down, and ask the other daughter, an art history graduate...

47 posted on 05/28/2016 12:02:50 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: greatvikingone

If you were my parent you would have quit that activity set after the third or fourth utter chicken scrawl produced by these completely talentless hands. I have difficulty drawing a straight line with a ruler. Absolutely nothing I have ever drawn looks remotely like what I was attempting to portray.

Not to say I don’t appreciate art, but some folks (like myself) found every art course/class/session a complete waste of our and the instructor’s time.

Courses on enjoying and interpreting art are a completely different subject. I mostly enjoyed those when I took them. Until the stupid instructor brought out the paper and pencils for us to scribble on. AARGH! One time the class leader accused me of intentionally sabotaging her class. I brought her some samples from other classes. She never asked me to draw again, thank G_d.


80 posted on 05/28/2016 1:46:28 PM PDT by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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