Modern art overload

I make absolutely no apologies for my love of modern and contemporary art. Not all of it, of course, but I really do enjoy it. Myles does, too.

I have to wonder, though, if we need to take his art appreciation into a more, um, classical direction. We were walking along one day recently in an area where there were some outdoor sculptures. Suddenly, Myles was running towards something, and I could hear the excitement in his voice, like he had just made some sort of connection in his mind.

"Look, Mom! A sculpture of a pile of bricks."

This was a part of this park where it appeared that they were about to do some work digging up and replacing part of the sidewalk. This is also where the story becomes a joke that writes itself, around since Marcel Duchamp called a urinal art.

"No, my love. That actually is a pile of bricks."

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Anonymous said…
This happened to me too! My husband is a painter and each of my kids (age 4, 2 and 6 weeks) hang out in all of the Modern Art Museums of our native Washington D.C. The DADA exhibit last year was a major hit for the pre-school set. On afternoon we were sitting in the back of a bus chatting away, when my then three year old daughter said "Look at that wonderful painting Mama!" My 1 year old son followed his sister's pointing finger and said "Ooh" approvingly. Then to the amusement of the follow riders I had to sheepishly explain that those were rust stains on the back of the passenger gate!
Anonymous said…
but in his eyes it WAS art....