Overheard in an art gallery...WOMAN (To Friend): Yes, well, he reminds me of Canaletto...
CHILD (Interrupting): Who's Canaletto?
WOMAN: You remember, dear, the painter who did all those pictures with water in them
CHILD: No...
WOMAN: Yes, you do! It was that exhibition we went to when you were too short to see the pictures...
"the painter who did all those pictures with water in them", (jajaja) good description of Maestro Giovanni Canal...:)
ReplyDeleteAh! Kids in museums... I remember taking my girls (then quite small) to a museum in France - a small local thing for children about the history of France. They had never heard of Napoleon then and I had to explain to them all about him... sotto voce because we were surrounded by French people and my British/Belgian take on the little guy was probably not quite what the French wanted to hear!
ReplyDeleteOh, some parents are terrible like that, aren't they? I was at Tate Modern over the weekend, and heard a father criticise his 3 year old son (who was looking at a pop-art picture of an aeroplane releasing a missile) for making flying and exploding noises.
ReplyDelete"It's supposed to make you look at things in a different way - to think about the colours, and even the textures!"
To a 3 year old. *humph*
EUDORA - One imagines how she would describe other artists: Turner, "The painter who did all those skies"; Rubens, "The painter who did all those bums"!
ReplyDeleteSUZANNE - Difficult bit of diplomacy that!
QENNY - With a bit of luck that child will grow up to be another Brian Sewell!