Thursday, April 01, 2010

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Emery announced earlier this week that she wanted to see the painting, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."  Well, actually, she didn't call it by the real name.  She said something like, "... that painting of the Sunday park and there are lots of dots and there is a ship sinking in the lake in the background ..."

I had personally never noticed the sinking boat in the background, but we knew what she meant ... so we stopped at the Art Institute of Chicago this afternoon for a close look.  Hey, if my child says they WANT to see a painting ... and it's local ... we're going!