Suspicion

Mummy has a few words to say to me and my friends on Blog galit.com today.  She says, "I have just started reading through a most enlightening book entitled Art Speak about recent movements in the art world.  One sentence which really got me laughing told how the United States, Russia and China were suspicious of modern art.  I thought, how funny, they the members of the public of those countries who didn't like some modern art overly much probably thought, "Who on earth do those modern artists think they are, having those new ideas!"  I had a good chuckle over that.  It reminded me of a father of a child I was instructing in my puppetry/storytelling class once, who remarked, when I had set up a table so the children could dabble in some modern art themselves, probably a traditionally trained painter himself I wouldn't doubt, "Um...what is that?"  very diplomatic, I felt, of him, but I thought his question was hilariously funny.  This was at a Jewish Community Centre.  I had lovingly saved the green perspex in question for years hoping to use it on just such an occasion as this to make something absolutely wonderful, and I thought the children would think so too.