Martin brought home gifts for the girls yesterday from a bookstore. Elspeth's was a big book of Chagall, whom she's shown an affinity for. The book wouldn't have been my first choice for a four-year old, especially since the cover,
To Russia, Asses, and Others, depicts a woman painted in a cubist style with her head floating away into a black and red sky. Elspeth took it in stride, and Martin left her in bed last night "explaining the paintings to Pink Bear:"
See, that woman is tossing her head in the air, Elspeth was saying as he walked away. It just goes to show you that children hold diverse worlds of wild and crazy things--they're not disturbed by the things that make us squeamish, and the soil of their imaginations are rich enough to produce sunflowers and wolves and teapots and monsters with six heads. No young child I know has ever showed any horror when Grandma is eaten by the wolf or when the woodcutter arrives and cuts the wolf's head clear off. . .
Anyhow, this morning, Elspeth was at her Drawing Table coloring like crazy.
"You'd better get dressed, honey," I said--she was almost late for preschool.
"I can't. I'm making an abstract right now."
So, at the price of timeliness, we let her finish.
Here's her work, rather influenced by Chagall, I think, though there are no discernible heads floating away. Maybe that's coming later.
3 comments:
kim, i love her work maybe because i too have a bit of an affinity for chagall. i hope she may always create such imaginative, colorful works. They make me smile.
haha apparently this one caught the maunz girls' eyes.
that is absolutely beautiful! and how i applaud you as parents for letting her finish.... it seems to have been well worth it :)
lovely work elspeth!
My lovely Maunz ladies, I love it that you stop in to say hello and engage with us lunatics at Wazoo. I love your sisterhood, and am hoping for such as you have for M, E, and B.
Katie, Martin and watched that great Avett bros. video. I wish you could stop by to prune our sad and leggy trees with your green fingers--and Anna, the old window frames for your photos--perfect. Will you put them up for sale? Do you ship? :) Seriously.
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