Kindergarten Trip to the Museum of Modern Art

Our kindergarten classes visited the Museum of Modern Art this week. They arrived before the museum opened to the public, which made for a special private tour.

Van Gogh’s Starry Night launched a lot of discussion on shapes, color, and texture.  On the way to visit The Red Studio, a painting the boys had studied in school, a group made an impromptu stop at another Matisse masterpiece, Dance.  They reenacted the scene by standing in a circle and mimicking the dancers.

A few boys asked to see some cubist art and they were in luck.  Pablo Picasso’s works were the next stop with a visit to Girl Before Mirror and Three Musicians.  Another painting the boys knew well was Claude Monet’s Water Lilies.  The size and scope of the real artwork was most impressive to the group.

The kindergartners also visited Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie and a Jackson Pollack.  The boys seemed to love their trip to the recently renovated MoMA and were a very engaged group throughout the hour-long tour.  Many thanks to the parent chaperones for escorting the boys and to the museum for having us.
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