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[teacherartexchange] Phillips Collection: When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child

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twoducks_at_TeacherArtExchange
Date: Sun Jun 18 2006 - 10:49:47 PDT

<<WHEN Paul Klee laboriously copied a mountain landscape by his
12-year-old son, Felix, into his own 1920 painting "Untitled (Tent City
in the Mountains)," he paid tribute to the vitality and inventiveness
of childhood, a source of creativity celebrated at least since
Rousseau. His homage put him squarely in a modernist tradition that
sought refuge from academic constraints in the somewhat mythical
paradise of an untrained eye that sees the world afresh, a childlike
hand still unshackled by habit and skill.
Decades earlier, when Klee had just finished his art studies, he
discovered a cache of his own childhood drawings. He described them, in
a 1902 letter to his fiancée, as "the most significant" ones he had yet
made. Three of those drawings are included in "When We Were Young: New
Perspectives on the Art of the Child," an exhibition opening this
weekend at the Phillips Collection in Washington.>>
(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/arts/design/18camhi.html?_r=1&oref=slo
gin)

This exhibit was put together by the author of a beautiful and
compelling book that should be on every art teacher's reading list:
THE INNOCENT EYE Children's Art and the Modern Artist, by Jonathan
Feinberg (Princeton University Press)

http://www.phillipscollection.org/html/programs.html#symposium
http://www.phillipscollection.org/html/exhibits.html#upcoming

I wish I could go see it; it will be at the Phillips in Washington DC
until September 10.

The free, _unschooled_ drawings of children are a rich source of
inspiration to many artists, including me.

kathy douglas
in steamy, summery Massachusetts, heading for the hammock
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