I had the best day today! We went to an art museum and saw so many cool things. There are many different paintings, drawings, and sculptures at art museums. We can see and learn about all these different works of art!
At the museum we saw some realistic paintings, like this still life painted by Paul Cezanne.
A still life is a picture of objects that are not moving. The artists looks at their shape and size to draw them just as if they were taking a photograph.
Walking through the museum I also saw this really big painting that we learned about in school. An artist named Marc Chagall painted it about dreams he had of his home in Russia. It is an abstract painting, meaning that it is opposite of a still life . Abstract is what an artists feels and thinks and not what they see. This painting is called "I and the Village". It looks like a dream, doesn't it?
When I was walking down the stairs at the museum I looked up and saw this great big object over my head. It was a mobile created by Alexander Calder!
Alexander Calder created these great big wire sculptures and made them into mobiles , which are like hanging sculptures that can move around. My little sister has one like this hanging in her crib!
Some paintings looked like they were telling a story...
And some paintings didn't look like anything at all!
I thought that this painting looked like it was a lot of fun!
Paintings like this one, by Andy Warhol, made me laugh...
There were also other paintings by Andy Warhol that I liked. He made "Pop Art", which meant that he used people and objects that were popular at the time. Just like these soup cans...
Or other famous people like this cowboy named Elvis....
The best part of today was standing in front of famous works of art that I have only seen pictures of. There were some paintings that were familiar and some that were new to me.
Looking at all this art makes me want to go home and create some of my own!