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Children Make The Best Art Critics

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One of the coolest things about the internet is being able to connect with an international audience. Check out this great email I got the other day :-)

'Hi there, I volunteer teaching art at a public school in Northern California. We are currently looking at Still Life of Fruit. I found your lovely, amazing and fun "Wrong Field" and have been using it is an example of Fruit Still Life. The students love this image! They had a few questions (6th graders especially). I told them I would try to get in touch with you. Questions are: 1. Is it a Giant's field of fruit that the sheep wondered into? 2. Is it a normal size sampling of fruit with a sheep toy? 3. Is it a distance perspective thing? Monumental fruit and sheep in the distance. 4. They are convinced something is happening behind the orange...and the sheep has a weird tail! There were many more comments, but overall the students love this piece and so do I. We were also looking at still life from Cezanne, Van Gogh, Chardin and Caravaggio. I used your art as an inspiration for them to create their own masterpiece. So, thank you for inspiring us and please let me know what your thoughts might have been when you painted "Wrong Field".'

Here's the painting "Wrong Field?"

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