You know, this is the strangest thing!
Today, a presenter from a wonderful outreach programme called "Art Gallery in the Schools" came to our class, and guess who the featured artist was this year...................hmmmmmmmmmm?
THAT'S RIGHT!!!!
So the kids viewed about 20 reproductions of Van Gogh's work from his earlier, more conventional paintings to his later wonders of form and colour.
And the five favourites?
#5 "The Bedroom"
#4 "Landscape Under a Stormy Sky"
#3 "Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, At Night"
#2 "Sunset Wheatfields Near Arles"
#1 "Starry Night"
"Church at Auvers" was actually in the collection shown, but did not receive the raves due the ones above. Interestingly enough, "Sunset Wheatfields" and "Starry Night" were very closely matched in the kids' opinions, but the latter "won the day" when most of them agreed with one girl's assessment "It's like the whole sky is in that one painting. Like every one of his stars is a million stars."
I love Vincent!
I love kids!!