Okay, I didn’t really steal any art. I’m not starting a Thomas Crowne affair, or even snatching 100′s of bird skins like that 22-year-old US student did in England (how do you smuggle 300 birds without a trail of feathers?).
No, I just took a few snaps at our own Seattle Art Museum. I mean, it was for educational purposes this time.
It all started when I volunteered to be fed to the lions my daughter’s 2nd grade class art docent. Which means I come every now and then to lead an art discussion and freeforall, chaotic mess project with them. Sort of an unpaid art instructor (yay, another unpaid job!).
And lo and behold, here comes Pablo Picasso in a special exhibit to SAM while the Musee Picasso in Paris is renovated.
So, I saw my opportunity and I grabbed it!
They had a great variety from Picasso’s long life of creations.
After gathering a few snappies, I went back to school and had the kids draw their own self-portraits in a Picasso style (which I have not stolen pictures of yet…hm, too easy, I guess).
You’d think I’d take better shots by now since I had a little practice at the Calder exhibit…shhhhh.
You have to wonder why, over thousands of years, people have felt the urge to create art. Is it an innate factor? Is there an art gene? Is it some calming or comforting feeling we get? Is it an escape? Or is it a charge forward into our true selves?
Also, we could ask the same of a person compelled to take illegal pictures of art….
I don’t have an answer. Do you?
The Picasso exhibit continues in Seattle until mid-January, 2011. Check it out.
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