Room for Art - Room for Animals

Room for Art - Room for Animals ashley's bears
http://www.lillunia.com/-FOCUS-SERIES-ART/Ashley-s-Bears-p69.html


Children respond in amazing ways to art. Besides all of the research conducted on the effects of art on children's intellectual and emotional development, its just cool to see the range of responses that young children have when exposed to art.


I remember once going with my, then 3-year-old niece Charlotte, to MOMA here in NY and watching her interact with neon rich Richard Serra sculpture. She walked back and forth in front of the piece several times then laid down flat on the floor in front of it-- as if to say-- well obviously I need to experience this from another point of view (perhaps her cat's).


Then we went on to look at the MOMAs amazing collection of Jackson Pollack's work. I believe the first thing she said is response to his art, was "I made that". I was not sure if she meant that she had made something that looked very close to that (quite possible) or what? At any rate, it was a beautiful afternoon looking at and watching her interact with so much amazing work.

The same interaction with art happens in the home. I grew up in a house filled with art-- art which I always engaged with, asked questions about and never tired of exploring again and again.



Art in the home (as in the museum or gallery) is a constant source of information and instruction. Whether the child's curiosity begins with the abstraction of color and form, with size, scale and frame and then moves to subject matter and all that the subject illicit from their ever curious minds-- there is nothing so rich- and certainly nothing so rich in value to be found in digital toys and gadgets; all those insipid plastic toys which occupy a child for about an hour and then make there way to the ever growing land fill. emily's elephants
http://www.lillunia.com/-ART/Emily-s-Elephants-p54.html

Lillunia Art is a timeless way to bring art into children's lives and to instruct them about the wonders of the natural world. They say that respect for others and for animals starts at home. We agree. In the relationships we foster with the art on our walls and the living animals in our lives - our children learn from us and what we do- Thank goodness!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving from all of us at Lillunia!

Love your families- love your animals!