Not a Girl with a Pearl Earring, but a pig: expo makes children enthusiastic about art

Edgar Degas, Johannes Vermeer or Peter Paul Rubens. These are just a few of the great masters with well-known work that can be seen in the exhibition ‘Great Art for Great Kids’ in Knokke-Heist. They are not the original paintings on display, but child-friendly and accessible versions by illustrator Thais Vanderheyden.

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“Find the Seven Differences”

The Mona Lisa was just replaced by a pig and Munch suddenly screams a panda. “You always see that the children and adults start searching very quickly, as the game find the seven differences works between the two. That they will see what is original and what has changed. That gaze is automatically drawn to the original and that is ultimately what I want to achieve,” says Thais.

The exhibition ‘Great Art for Great Kids’ can be visited from Saturday to early September in the old fishing school in Knokke-Heist.