Off we go to see Rembrandt. Katherine and I chatted about what art was. Often it's combined with the word "crafts". In an effort to draw a comparison I resorted to comparing Rembrandt and a Pinkalicious book (Pinkie Promise) where Pinkalicious uses all of her friend's pink paint to paint a picture for their teacher. Enter: Our basis for "art". Given my comparison, we thought it would be fun to look at the Rembrandts and see if we could find pink in them. Yeah yeah yeah... dark painter. I know. Surprisingly though we found one piece with pink. It was quite colorful too!!
To keep us occupied the rest of the time we played a matching game. As we walked in we received a little book with information on Rembrandt and some pictures of his work. We matched the pictures in the book to the paintings on the wall. She found a match for every single painting! She did an AWESOME job.
We also talked about the people in the paintings. Lucretia, The Three Singers and of course, Jesus. From the minute we walked in she saw a painting of a man and baby Jesus. She yelled from across the room "Mommy! Look, there's baby Jesus!!" Not believing her at first we went over to check out the painting and... She was right. It was Simeon with the Christ Child. Later we were looking for one of the pieces in the book and it too had an older Jesus. She yelled as she found it from across the room "Mommy!!!! I FOUND JESUS!!!" Indeed baby. Indeed. =)
As we were leaving the exhibit a woman approached Katherine and I to tell us how wonderful she was in the exhibit. She asked her what she learned today and Katherine responded telling her that Rembrandt was happy when he was young and cranky when he was older after he lost all of his dollars. :) Based on the "self portraits" we saw... I'd tend to agree.
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| Younger (happier) Rembrandt |
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| Older (Cranky) Rembrandt |
Maybe I didn't do too shabby in my art lesson today. ;)
xo
Darlene
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