Monday, 30 January 2012

Magpie Tales #102 Just three colours


Red Spot II   Wallisy Kandinsky

The teacher told her class to use just three colours in their paintings. She was very pleased with their efforts until she reached Michael. His was a blaze of colour and she remonstrated with him.

He protested that he had chosen to work with red, yellow and blue. ‘You didn’t say we couldn’t mix them,’ he said and she sighed and agreed with him. Next time she must make her instructions clearer.

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20 comments:

  1. Mary30 January 2012 at 13:00

    Clever, and sounds JUST like the reasoning of children.

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  2. Berowne30 January 2012 at 13:33

    An effective art lesson, well expressed...

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  3. Brian Miller30 January 2012 at 14:47

    ha good on him for creative thinking...and sadly there are those teachers that would chastise for that...ugh...

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  4. EG CameraGirl30 January 2012 at 14:50

    Michael is such a clever boy and knows how to think "ouuside the box." :)

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  5. anthonynorth30 January 2012 at 15:23

    That's one clever kid.

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  6. Gattina30 January 2012 at 15:51

    He was right, because with these 3 colors you can make a lot of others.
    Kandinsky is not so my cup of tea btw.

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  7. Anonymous30 January 2012 at 16:07

    Clever, or smartass?

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  8. booguloo30 January 2012 at 16:58

    Nicely done and smart.

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  9. Carolina30 January 2012 at 18:02

    Good for Michael, thinking out of the box.

    I've been to a Kandinsky exhibition in the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam many years ago. Hubs likes his paintings.

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  10. Susan Anderson30 January 2012 at 19:18

    A sad illustration of what happens all too often.

    I like the way you framed this.

    =)

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  11. Belle31 January 2012 at 01:16

    I was always misunderstanding instructions and my teachers. He was right though, she wasn't clear in what she said.

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  12. Tumblewords:31 January 2012 at 05:59

    Smart kid. I'm thinking I could learn a lot from him.

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  13. booguloo31 January 2012 at 14:42

    Very ingenious.

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  14. Trellissimo31 January 2012 at 20:03

    The kind of little smartarse we all love to hate. Neat Magpie tale. But how does he get black?

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  15. jabblog31 January 2012 at 20:19

    Thank you, folks:-)

    @Trellissimo - 'how does he get black?' Have you ever LOOKED at a boy's hands??

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  16. Isabel Doyle1 February 2012 at 08:11

    Silly teacher - I would have applauded the creativity!

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  17. Dave King1 February 2012 at 08:51

    Yeah, I've had kids like that in my classes!

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  18. Kay3 February 2012 at 07:28

    Was his name actually Marc? As in Chagall?

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  19. jabblog3 February 2012 at 14:08

    Isabel - quite right!
    Dave - me too :-/
    Kay - could well be ;-)

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  20. Hilary Melton-Butcher8 February 2012 at 12:18

    Hi Janice .. shows we need to be explicit .. but I loved the Kandinsky art work ..

    What's the bird at the top? Please pretty please! - thank you - cheers Hilary

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