A Georgia Girl in Germany

Toward the end of the school year this past spring, Zachary called out, “Hi Monae,” to a classmate who he saw in the park across the street. MacKenzie, fresh from studying classical painters, looked at him and asked who he was talking to. When he told her, she replied, “Oh, I thought you were talking about Claude.” As in Claude Monet, the impressionist painter.
Her class had recently visited an art museum in downtown Stuttgart to see the Monet exhibit. How cool was that! She studied Monet in class, then went on a field trip to experience the Monet exhibit first-hand! Oh, the benefits of living in Europe!! A related quote from her, just a few days earlier, was “Mommy, do we have any Monet’s?” While we have some nice artwork, nothing adorning our walls even comes close to a Monet, but she definitely gave me a good chuckle with that one! I may have an art lover on my hands here…after all, she is my artsy child (artist as well as photographer).

Now for the day’s art lesson: The top painting is “Water Lilies (The Clouds),” painted in 1903. The middle one is a self-portrait, and at the left is one of his earlier works, “The Beach at Trouville,” painted in 1870. None of these pieces of art adorn our walls though.

Labels: Kid Quotes, MacKenzie