On Friday, Meagan Estep, graduate intern in Education, led a large group of visitors on a special edition of our daily Spotlight tours. This Personal Response tour had the group enthusiastically exchanging observations and ideas in a series of activities focused on a few permanent collection favorites. In one activity, we split into groups, each writing a sentence about a selected painting and then combining our sentences to form a poem about the work. Here are two of our creations:
Marc Chagall’s The Dream
A dark night of the Russian soul
Love in poverty
Tenderness amidst uncertainty
A feathery softness
Brings light to the darkness
Vincent van Gogh’s Entrance to the Public Gardens in Arles
I reach inward and consider my thoughts
To and fro
To and fro
Green and gold surround me
In a warm place
Sculpted Sky
Blue feelings rise up
Days go by, life unfolds
Great fun!
Here’s a little found poem that came to mind as I read the verses:
Darkness brings tenderness
to my Russian-sculpted soul.
I reach inward
and warm blue feelings
light the night.
Days go by, love unfolds.