Mom and I were at the Musee d'Orsay today, a wonderful impressionist museum in a converted old train station along the Seine river in Paris. We were in one of the rooms on the top floor, looking at Monet's "The Turkeys at Montgeron" when all of a sudden a bunch of little French kids came running in and plopped down on the ground in front of us. Their instructor began to explain the painting to the assembled and rather oddly quiescent 5 year olds:
"Note that this painting is a collection of small brush strokes," she told the unusually attentive kindergartners. "The other paintings we've seen today were made up entirely of a series of small dots. As these are strokes and not dots, this is not an example of true impressionism."One little boy in front then pointed across the room at a still life by God-knows-who and said "look, there's fruit behind that monsieur over there!"
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