Sunday, January 25, 2009

Art Books

What do I write about tonight? There's not much to say. Coco just got into my lap to see what I'm doing. She likes to watch the computer screen when I'm on the computer. She's so cute.
Our entertainment this afternoon was to get the art books off the shelves and look at different artists' work. Mom had John Singer Sargent's book, D. had the Norman Rockwell book and I was looking at artists of the 20th century. We had an art discussion. D. wanted to know about Pointalism. We discussed Salvatore Dali, the Impressionists, Winslow Homer, and Picasso.
Now it's my job to put the heavy books back into the bookcases. The next time we'll take others off the shelves and see what we can learn and teach.
I love my art books. I've gotten most of them when I've visited the art museums in NYC. Most of my trips were to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I'm hoping that I can go again this spring. I'll check their website to see what special collections they may have. Last year a friend and I visited and spent most of our time in the Roman and Greek exhibit. It was very interesting. That's something to look forward to when spring arrives. Oh, Spring! Where are you? How I yearn for warmer days and flowers blooming. Then I remember that Winter, this too shall pass.

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