The Art of Degas

Marina had the day off for President’s Day, so I took it off as well. We both slept in this morning which was nice since it was a cold, snowy day.

The roads weren’t too bad, so we decided to go out for a while. We went  for lunch and then went to the Art Museum. They have a temporary exhibit on the art of Edgar Degas. I thought she might like his paintings of ballet dancers, so we got tickets for the exhibition.

At first, Marina seemed a bit bored. But she did spend time looking at all the practice drawings on display and the paintings. As I expected, she liked the ballet paintings.

After going through the Degas exhibit, we looked at the third and fourth floors which had artwork featuring animals on display. Marina found a video game to play for a little while. She did like some of the animal artwork – especially the ones that featured cats!

We checked out the interactive area where Marina experimented with making sculpture out of wire. But she wasn’t as interested in the hands-on activities as she has been in the past. On our way out we got chai lattes. That kept us warm for the short walk to the car.