Lucas, On Art

"Jackson Pollock's art is, like, massive!" Lucas says to me in the bathroom one day. "It's like this, and THIS, and this..." (making artistic, ninja-like swooshes that are way too grand for our little pink bathroom.)

Lucas's Jackson Pollock

His class was planning a trip to the High Museum and they were learning about several artists. I asked him which was ones he was going to see and he said Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, and Renee (really Piet) Mondrian. He has Renee on the brain - more to come on that.

L: But one of them is not a real artist.
Me: Oh ya? Which one is that?
L: Pablo Picasso.
Me: Why not?
L: Because sometimes when he paints faces he paints them like this (looks as if he is molding some sort of slime that keeps slipping through his fingers) and paints diamonds for eyes and stuff. When he was older he got better though.

Incidentally, Lucas is also a sock artist.