Our Day At The Tate

While Mom wandered off to enjoy Wine Down Under, the girls and Scott ventured to the Tate Museum of Modern Art. We've seen a lot of traditional and representational art while we have been here, but this is our first foray into contemporary art. The girls were skeptical, but they had a good time and proved to have a good eye for the genre. As Olivia summed up the day "Modern art is like patterns, but they have a meaning behind them. " Olivia proclaimed one of Monet's Water Lilies to be her favorite. She came home able to explain to Mom the intricacies of a Mondrian and a Jackson Pollack. She decidedly doesn't like Henri Mattisse. Scott was impressed when she took one look at the above Phillip Gaston and immediately recognized a figure within the abstraction as a returning soldier. Throughout the day, she, Meredith and even Cecily demonstrated an uncanny ability to spot the representations that simply eluded their Dad, even before he read them the name of the piece or the explanatory panel. Maybe the works of artists who design art that looks as if it was made by children are best interpretted by children!