Words of a Child

We visited the Getty Museum last weekend. My six-year old, “Deep Thinker,” had lots of questions about the paintings we were looking at. I didn’t even really stop to think that there might be nude paintings or that they might surprise him. Anyway, we were walking through the room with the still lifes and portraits. […]

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Today we went with friends to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It’s really nice–a modern, spacious building surrounded by beautiful gardens. It has several pavillions with exhibits. In one of them, we saw paintings by Rembrandt, Millet, Degas, and many others. So, I was admiring this still life painted by Chardin in the late […]

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