[mikrofon]

LOL -- ya gotta be quick!

[mslee]

After reading about the painter and painting, I can understand why the kid decided to make a "statement". "In the early 1950s, Frankenthaler, began pouring paint directly on an unprimed canvas, resulting in overlapping pools of saturated color. When the painters Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis picked up on Frankenthaler's staining technique, it codified the color-field style that dominated American abstract art in the 1960s. Completed in 1963, "The Bay" is a landmark Frankenthaler because it was her first stained picture done with acrylic paint, a new medium at the time. In "The Bay" -- a large picture dominated by sea of blue against horizontal fields of green, gray and cream -- you can feel the artist's growing confidence and control."

[LYSandra]

I'm surprised the museum didn't have the kids behind a roped area so they couldn't touch anything just look. Kids are so tactile you would have thought the museum would have thought of that first thing. Especially when there is always one in the crowd doing something stupid!