Our first art gallery visit

I was inspired by blog posts on the Tinkerlab and RedTed Art blogs to start introducing my kiddles to art. I love art and wish I had more of it in my life. So I decided to take us all on a trip to the Johannesburg Art Gallery. My dad came with us which was great because he's very knowledgable and has little interesting facts about a lot of artists.

Of course Curious George decided ahead of time that it was going to be booorrring but I persisted and he really got into it. His favorites were a collection of Jackson Hlangwane carvings and a William Kentridge hand drawn animated short film. 

He and Jelly Bean also really enjoyed the huge halls which have nothing in them except for the paintings on the walls, they ran/crawled all over the place. Fortunately we were the only ones there so there were no rude stares and angry glances.

One of the funniest moments was when we were looking at a super realistic painting of a man called The Emporer. We were looking at it up close to see that the the artist had even painted the veins in his feet. Then I asked CG "what is odd about this painting." At first he pointed to the green curtain which was the backdrop of the painting. " What else" I asked. "His penis" he replied matter of factly. Then we all had a big giggle because the man was "necked" a CG puts its. 

We only stayed about 40 mins but it was a great experience for all. Even JB found something she liked, a set of marble steps which she climbed about 50 times while we watched the Kentridge film.