Some days I wonder if I unduly influence my kids - especially now my 5-year-old only draws lights in a Clairmont fashion.
3rd Panel of Staircase Triptych- Philip Clairmont
However the following “takes the cake” so to speak. “[the party - for a 5 year old] had a gallery opening theme, at her insistence — each guest had to bring a work of art they’d made to put on the wall, and the cake was decorated to look like a Jackson Pollock canvas in progress“. I have to say I am impressed by the cake but I simply can’t imagine a kid asking for a Pollock cake (although maybe that’s where I am going wrong).
The Pollock Birthday cake (sure beats my Dora one)
I have to note that the whole context of art thing has taken on a life over at ArtBash. I like this simple little line “ART = context+art+viewer”. And I’d also reccommend “Privatising Culture” although its quite a tome.
April 27, 2008 at 9:16 pm
I swear to you she requested the cake. Stack of bibles.
April 27, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Apologies - wasn’t meaning to imply she didn’t - I am pretty impressed she did! Its just funny because I worry about dragging my kids around galleries and over-doing art with them.
April 27, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Oh, no, it’s fine. I was joshing. (I don’t even own a stack of bibles.)
I get into MoMA free with my student ID, so we spend a lot of time there. So far Casey really digs it. She loves getting the “clicker” and doing the audio tours.