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| Art Safari invites you and your child to explore the painting and sculpture collection of The Museum of Modern Art. This site encourages learning about art by looking and sharing interpretations. A series of questions will guide you and your child to make up stories based on four different artworks. Ask younger children to talk about what they see, and type in their replies; older children can interact with the program on their own. The questions proposed help children develop observational skills by asking them to describe what they see. None of the questions assume knowledge about the history of art. They simply draw upon children's natural curiosity and often evoke surprising and insightful responses. Following each discussion, children can create their own artwork on the computer, or they can carry out projects by painting, drawing, or making a sculpture. You may look at examples of such artwork in the Children's Art Display. Computer based art may also be printed from the Web site. This site is based on the book Art Safari: And Adventure in Looking, for Children and Parents at the Museum of Modern Art by Joyce Raimondo (published by MoMA, 1997). The book is available in The MoMA Book Store for $5.95. For more information on how to buy the book, visit the Publications section of the MoMA Web site. You are invited to visit the Museum where you will discover wild and whimsical animals in original artworks by Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Henri Rousseau, Diego Rivera and others on your Art Safari. |
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