When my daughter was about 1 1/2 years old, we took her to a Marc Chagall exhibit in San Francisco. She just ate it up. Her dad carried her from painting to painting, and she kept saying, "nother one." "nother one." We still read the catalog from that exhibit as if it were a story book.
I think Chagall's art is especially well-suited to young viewers, because it has such a storytelling quality to it. The figures are recognizable and magical at the same time. In fact, Chagall created etchings of stories like Aesop's fables. While some of his subject matter can be pretty dark, everything he made has this magical realism to it.
Kids are kind of natural magical realists, since they travel back and forth so much between their imaginations and their surroundings.
So, if you get a chance, show a child some Chagall. You can read about him on Wikipedia, or you can see a lot of his paintings here too. And this is also a nice gallery of his work as well.
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