Spring is here with a whole new palette of colors to explore and inspire. Stop by the Milwaukee Art Museum for any of our Weekend Family Programs where you can make a mess or a masterpiece in vivid color!
In the Kohl’s Art Generation Gallery explore how artists use color to bring their paintings to life. Blooming pink flowers, a swirling river of purple, blue, and green, and an orchestra playing a red song—discover how colors mix and play together to tell their own wonderful story. What color story will you tell?
Ever plant a rainbow? If not, be sure to visit the Kohl’s Art Generation Studio and collaborate on the vegetable garden collage mural. Our rainbow just keeps growing!
And as always you’ll find Story Time and Sketching in the Galleries, featuring works in the Museum Collection by Ellsworth Kelly, Mark Rothko, Claude Monet, Pierre Bonnard, Georgia O’Keeffe, and more. Also don’t forget our popular scavenger hunt!
Have we piqued your curiosity? Stop by anytime Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM-4 PM. Stay two minutes or two hours, or check Upcoming Events for specific details.
What does an artist look like? Artists come in all shapes and sizes. You never know when or where you’ll run into one, but it’s a good bet they might be found wandering around in the galleries at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Six-year-old Lauren, for example, says she has wanted to be an artist ever since she was “really little.” To help her get started, Lauren and her family stopped by the Milwaukee Art Museum for Sketching in the Galleries, one of the Museum’s many Weekend Family Programs. We interviewed Lauren, with a little help from her family, after the session.
- MAM:
- What did you like best about the class today?
- Lauren:
- Drawing Pictures.
- MAM:
- What drawing did you enjoy today?
- Lauren:
- Drawing the picture of the outside, when we looked out the window. I like the trees and the rocks. I just like the way they’re shaped. The trees and the lake have straight lines. Straight lines are best.
- MAM:
- You like straight lines better than curved ones?
- Lauren:
- Well some things just look better with straight lines.
- MAM:
- What makes drawing pictures fun?
- Lauren:
- It’s just fun. I like drawing pictures because you can draw pictures of anything. You can draw them anytime, too.
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Take a look around, what do you see? Crazy colors, Robots, Dragons, and TVs! There are lots of fun things to see at the Milwaukee Art Museum. A quick walk through the galleries can stir any rainy day blues—filling the imagination with ideas and inspiration.
Here are two pieces from the Milwaukee Art Museum Collection that have a lot in common though they are very different in style. When you look at them what do you see? How are these pictures similar? Both are red, white, and blue with patterns on their surface.
On the left is Jean Dubuffet, one of the most famous French painters and sculpturers of the second half of the 20th century. His Court les rues is beautiful example of his graphic and whimsical style. If you look closely you can imagine that large squiggly blob in the center is a person!
Court les rues or “Court Street” in English probably means that this person is standing on the corner—which makes sense if the brown object to their right is a mailbox, with its white handles and riveted steal frame. The bold colors, graphic stripes, and all the colorful graffiti around them are sure fun to look at don’t you think?
The second piece is a man cut-out and painted on wood titled Youth of Abraham, by celebrated folk artist Howard Finster. The young man, with his business suit is probably on his way to work. Look at all the funny things on his jacket and pants. There are people and places, ghosts, airplanes, and all kinds of curious sayings. What do you see? One message reads, “Stop Look & Live.”
Stop by the Museum Galleries and you’ll surely spot something different each time. Maybe you can come up with your own list of favorites from the Museum Collection?
The Kohl’s Art Generation Gallery is now open! And we are excited to introduce the first exhibit in our newly renovated space. It’s called Color Stories and kids of all ages can see firsthand how colors mix with one another, inspire stories, convey moods, or maybe just fool the eye.
The exhibit features work from artist Joseph Albers whose “Homage to the Square” paintings examine color interaction in great detail. As a noted professor and head of the Department of Design at Yale University, Mr. Albers taught others how to explore color as well. You can see some pretty extreme examples from a few of his students in the Sensory Overload exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Works by Richard Anuszkiewicz and Julian Stanczak can really test what you think you see.
Won’t you stop by and have a look? Join us for any of our Weekend Family Programs and you’ll be sure to have a color story all your own. Until then, here are a few fun websites to check out:
