I've gotten rather behind on the blog updates. (Sorry Mom!) So we're going back in time a few weeks. We got to go on a tour of the Baltimore Museum of Art with our Art Club friends. The kids have been studying various artists and types of paintings. One of the artists they studied was Degas, who created the sculpture The Little Dancer. There is a really nice children's book about the story behind this statue, which we read. All the kids were super excited that one of statues pored from the original mold. They were a little disappointed because they thought it would be THE Little Dancer with the ribbon the girl gave Degas, but they were still happy to see the one at the BMA. They also got to examine lots of portraits and see the different styles between time periods and artists.
After the tour, we stuck around and investigated the Modern Art Exhibits. The girls liked much of the artwork, but some they just didn't get. I'll admit some I just don't get either. I should have taken a picture of the giant American flag fleece pillows that reminded me of intestines. But I don't really want a picture of that. There was a really cool sculpture of an extinct species of dolphins that the artist created out of driftwood. And of course the girls loved the giant metal flower that was like a disco ball on the inside.
There is also a large room where you are encouraged to create your our drawings to hang. Now the girls can say they have artwork that hung in the BMA! It was really neat to see what other people chose to draw and I was happy that the girls were being pretty creative in their drawings as well. Of course, Gwyn drew a cat, but it was a good cat.
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