The value of art

In my home, you will find paintings of The Last Supper, Sermon on the Mount, The Creation of Adam, and those are just a few of my favorites. I also enjoy the impressionists. Everyone enjoys high profile paintings, and they are all worthy to be shown in their own right. Most of us have priceless paintings in our own home and don’t even know it. No one else has the picture painted by their child of her/his family. The way she/he sizes us, shows who she sees as in control at that point in time. The colors she/he uses shows the mood she is in at the time of the portrait. The people other than family immediate family members shows who is relevant to her/him right then.

My favorite art in my home is the creations and artwork my children make.

When a child does a masterpiece, it denotes emotions that they are sometime not able to express in words. A beautiful flower may show that the child is satisfied with her/his self inside. Blustery days may show that this small person needs to speak of something that she/he doesn’t know how to start a conversation about. My favorite is landscapes, with trees,sunlight, mountains, animals, as this speaks that the child sees the world as part of a bigger world.

Enjoy every piece of art you encounter, as it is all worthy. Even the simplest doodle expresses a whimsical feel. The original artwork we own is like a calender of our child’s life, with them allowing us to look in, and if we are smart and choose to explore these masterpieces, we might just get to know our flesh and blood better than we ever imagined, and maybe produce another DaVinci if we discuss their pictures as art, or Shakespeare if we see it as an abstract of their feelings.