Kyle Sings a Song
Kyle and I were reading Museum Shapes (which is an amazing book, by the way; from Pompeiian murals to Picasso’s Harlequin, tracking down circles and crescents have never been so… artsy!) when we came upon Childe Hassam’s Avenue of the Allies – “What shape are the flags?” I guess you have to know a little bit about flags and the nature of wind to conclude that these particular flags are crooked forms of rectangles, which doesn’t really make them rectangles in the two-dimensional world… but anyway. I turn the page to find the answer and other pieces of art. Kyle turns the page back to the flags.
“Flag!”
“Yes, those are flags. Great Britian. United States of America. Brazil…”
“Yooooooooouuuuuu’re aaaaaahhhhh….” he begins.
“Grand old flag, you’re a high flyin’ flag, and forever in peace may you waaaAAAAAAve!” we sing together.
When studying Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square, he calls out the colors he sees. Well, he’s not an expert on colors just yet, so he says, “Purple! Red!”
“Orange,” I say.
“Orange!”
What a sweetie. He’s so smart. That was the first time we read it together. We read to triangle. The few times after that, we reviewed the first shapes in art and read to diamond. It’s not a really a book to learn true geometric polygons because the shapes include star and arch. And apparently, the librarians don’t consider it an art book because I found it in the 500s.
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