Sometimes kids just don’t appreciate fine art.
It may have something to do with a certain aesthetic maturity, a sensitivity of mind that a child as young as three is just not yet experienced enough to attain.
Their minds are still white and clear, a book not yet written so they cannot see the back story to a piece of sculpture, cannot imagine the sweat, the toil, the heartache the passion. They do not consider purpose or planning, or recognize that a creator has worked on this form until what they consider to be that moment of perfection.
Which is why when faced with the ceramic masterpiece below…
Miss M uttered the following words:
Miss M: “Mummy, why is dat slug dere?”
I wonder if that was the artiste’s vision. Snort.
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October 12th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
at least there was no slime trail.
October 12th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I still feel that way about art and I’m 41, what is wrong with me!!!
October 12th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Yes, but why is that slug there and you know, children very often tell the truth when we are afraid to. It may have been a lot of work, but it does look like a slug, she is right. Would you put that on your coffee table?
October 12th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I concur.
That is not arty!
That is a silly, sluggy dustcatcher!
October 12th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
lol! I thought she was gonna say it looked like a piece of poo. It’s what I saw.
October 12th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
LOL I’m with DFTF. I am so glad I am not the first one to say it looked like poo. The wrong colour perhaps. And maybe shape. But it is what came into my head.
October 12th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
me thinks she has seen a few slugs in her lifetime. hmmmmmm…..
October 13th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Cami, we have enough of those in our kitchen again. Damn the British weather and whatever vent in the wall behind the washing machine they’re probably getting in.
Irene, I wouldn’t even put it on my kitchen floor with all the other slugs tee hee.
Sybil, definitely. Heh heh.
DFTF, why am I not surprised? ;D
CrazyCath, again, why am I not surprised? ;D
And yes, she has seen maaaaaaaany slugs, sighhh.
October 13th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Well, even if it is a slug, it’s a very pretty slug!!
October 13th, 2008 at 9:08 am
I feel the same way too Doozie, what it means is that we are not idiots taken in by a pile of pants.
Corey, she so has, you know it.
October 13th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Ah, I see where she could make a mistake there…looks like a slug to me…quick, where’s my pan of beer?
LOL
Sandi
October 13th, 2008 at 9:18 am
I once showed my son a picture of Picasso’s work and he said ‘but it’s a bit rubbish isn’t it. I mean it doesn’t even make sense’ – clearly not a fan!
October 13th, 2008 at 9:20 am
I once showed my son a picture of Picasso’s work and he said ‘but it’s a bit rubbish isn’t it? I mean it doesn’t even make any sense’ – clearly not a fan!
October 13th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Sandi, it really does doesn’t it? Hee hee.
October 13th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Tara, I’ve thought that about a Van Gogh as well. That’s so bad isn’t it?
October 13th, 2008 at 10:17 am
well, THEY (whoever the flock ‘they’ are)say art is in the eye of the beholder and Miss M sees a slug … me, I saw that thingie that is the NZ symbol on the keyring ScrappySue gave me .. of course I dont recall what it was called .. sigh.. slug works for me, but dont tell anyone
October 13th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
you mean she doesn’t like it? dang it, i got her three of these for christmas! what am i going to do now, jo? dang! i don’t want em!