Norton Simon Museum

The first interesting painting I looked at was “The Vicarage Garden Under Snow”.Vicent Van Gugh painted a pheasant working in a field. It was a gloomy gray painting. The reason this caught my interest was because they x-rayed the painting and found another one underneath. I painting of a women sitting at a spinning wheel. Maybe he was short on money and could’nt afford canvas so he painted over pictures he did’nt like. Pissarro has a strange unusual brush stroke I noticed in a painting of lady’s wearing sweaters. They looked very fuzzy in cashmere. I don’t understand how he does that with a brush. But after checking out the whole museum me and my daughter liked Edgar Degas the best. He worked with clay, chalk, pastels, and paint. It seems that he loved the ballet and admired a womans work. I thought that his scultures were kind of clumpy. He never used tools to smooth the clay in numerous statues. The statue of a fourteen year old girl on the otherhand was very well shaped and realistic. ”Dancers in the Wings ”, shows two little girls adjusting their butterfly wings and getting ready to dance. This painting was made out of nine seperate strips of canvas overlapping to create a large piece. Again maybe the artist had not enough money to buy his canvas. The painting was not centered so the little girl was cut off as though looking through a doorway, an interesting view.