Kids Color the Room Dotty at Art Museum

There's art for art's sake, and then art for kids' sake. Combine the two, and you get a riot of color.

That's what happened at the Queensland Art Gallery, when Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama painted a room white and then turned loose a bunch of children armed with stickers of colored dots. Also in the room were a piano and a table and chairs, also painted white. They are now also covered in colored dots.

It's called the Obliteration Room. It's interactive art at its most colorful, and it's part of the ongoing exhibit "Look Now, See Forever" at the QAG's Gallery of Modern Art.

I have to say from looking at the photo for a good long while that I much prefer this riot of color to the splash-fests of Jackson Polock (although that might be just personal preference).

You could argue that the artist didn't do it all herself, and you'd be right. But she did provide the backdrop and the means of creation, it certainly added a varied perspective to what might have been the result if only Kusama had done the dot-ting. (Besides, she's been there, done that).