Lessons at the Guggenheim

I. How to draw a line                   

(Understand that the horizon is a circle)

Walk along the ramp to the second floor.
See: the horizon, a landscape
painting: van Gogh’s mountains.


II. How to draw a circle

(It begins with a line)

Continue your way up the ramp.
Are you walking in a straight line?
In circles?
See: Kandinsky’s compositions.


III. How to look at art

(“Space is the breath of art.”)

Stop by the museum cafe.
Look out the window and see
the spaces between trees
that line Central Park.