Art from the Heart

In my last post I briefly made reference to little kids drawing on the sidewalk with colored chalk. This gave me an idea for another subject on which to blog...Art from a Child’s Perspective, or what I like to call Art from the Heart. Recently, I read an account of a couple who took their 4-year old daughter to a museum to see an exhibit on the history of Barbie dolls. But what really caught the little girl’s eye was a painting by George de Forest Brush entitled The Blue Madonna, which she referred to as “the lady in the blue gown.” In the painting, the folds of the gown looked so real the little girl couldn’t get over the fact that the dress wasn’t three-dimensional. She couldn’t figure it out, and kept trying to look behind it. This story speaks to the fact that we really can’t know what’s going to pique a child’s interest artistically until they show us. But as long as we keep it fun and age appropriate, anything is possible. Have you revisited those drawings on your fridge lately?

Here’s to our children and the depth of their imaginations. Here’s to art.