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Entertaining approach to art appreciation, color recognition
My 19 month old daughter has this video as well as several others in the Baby Einstein series (Mozart, Bach, Shakespeare, and the 2 Dolittles). She has been watching it for 5 months now (since she was 14 months old) and it is currently her favorite in the Einstein series. She calls it "painter goat" and it has gotten her interested in painting with a brush instead of just her fingers. This video is organized around 6 colors- yellow, green, orange, purple, red and blue. After the introduction of each color, a short poem (written and read by Julie Aigner-Clark) scores a short skit highlighting that color. Using toys, video segments from nature, live action sequences of children, and the ubitiquous puppets, the selected color is featured while the puppet "Vincent Van Goat" is painting one of six Van Gogh masterpieces that features that color. My daughter enjoys this video, laughing, clapping and pointing at the screen while we watch. She can now also indentify all her colors and will yell them out at the screen. For this reason, given the educational content and the spark of interest in painting, I have to say this is a very good effort by the Baby Einstein Company. I didn't give it a full 5 stars for two reasons. First, as an adult, I find the poems rather poorly written. This is something I don't think my daughter notices however. Second, some of the colors used tend to run into others, given that they use real world objects like flowers, I know this can't be helped. However, what can be helped is the color of paint they use to exemplify the color. For example, for the color "purple" the can of paint that the puppet uses shows up as blue--it is almost the same color as the blue puppet itself. Further, some of the items used to demonstate purple (such as a hanging mobile) show up as blue as well. It is not the fault of my TV or VCR, my husband suspects that the lighting in the studio when they were filming was incorrect, as certain colors absorb and reflect light in differing degrees. For a child learning her colors, this can be very confusing. In this instance, my daughter names the color blue, which is what it LOOKS like, instead of purple which is what it is SUPPOSED to be. I feel they should have taken more care with the production quality in this regard. However, even with these two reservations, I have to say it is a very good video for a child interested in colors and who enjoys painting.

Attraction of this one a mystery...
My 19 month old daughter was completely mesmerized by Baby Van Gogh when we first got it, although the attraction was a bit of a mystery for us parents. The content seems way too simple and there is no dialogue at all -- only single words "red", "yellow", "blue", etc. However, it seems to be just the right thing for very young children and my daughter has watched it over and over. I like that it is not connected to some syndicated character like Barney, and introduces famous artwork with a soundtrack of pleasant classical music. I feel the Baby Einstein series is a nice healthy thing to introduce to your babies and can see where it would be especially great for infants (I wish I would have bought it earlier!), but now that my daughter is old enough to follow a story line, I feel she will lose interest in the Baby Einstein format. I have purchased Baby Mozart but she doesn't seem as interested in it. I would highly recommend Baby Van Gogh and Baby Mozart for babies 0 to 18 months, whereas toddlers, (mine, at least) will be looking for more stimulation.

age limits do not apply
I bought the Baby Galileo first, since it was all that my Wal-Mart had, then I came to Amazon and bought this one, as well as Baby Bach and Baby Mozart. Of all of the 4 that we have so far, Baby Van Gogh is my daughter's favorite. She screams with glee when "Van Goat" appears on the screen. I have been showing this video to her since she was 2 months old, regardless of the "recommended" age of the videos, and she is completely encaptured by them all, but this one in particular. I have ordered 4 more titles, and I hope to get the other accessories for my daughter so we can have more family interraction time.

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