Posted on 05/28/2016 11:01:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
hould children be allowed in art galleries?
In 2014 Jake Chapman caused a minor furore, and prompted a lot of column inches, when he said that taking kids to galleries was a “waste of time”.
He told The Independent parents were "arrogant" for thinking their children could understand artists like Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko, adding "children are not human yet".
The two children in this video, which has been going viral in recent days, clearly couldn’t give a hoot what Jake Chapman has to say about their appreciation of art.
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And as their parents look on, filming their offspring enjoying themselves, the kids get up close to one exhibit – a sculpture called “Angel Is Waiting” by Shelly Xue – and start touching it.
One of them pull sit away from the wall, it falls back – and breaks.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
He told The Independent parents were “arrogant” for thinking their children could understand artists like Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko, adding “children are not human yet”.
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The modern art world is a fraud that mostly comes up with distinctive works to be used as currency and shelter for wealthy people’s money.
I hope they caught them!
There is at least one unstated assumption in this article; i.e. the piece damaged by the children was “art.”
Too bad they didn’t knock over and break that jar of urine...
Ah! A perfect justification! Congratulations!
The parents are to blame. There clearly was a velvet rope around the exhibit, and the parents let the kids go inside the roped-off area. There is no excuse for that.
My son understood from a very young age that you do not misbehave in public. I have no idea how I taught him that, but I do find that parents who allow children to misbehave in public are extremely annoying.
Better parenting required. But taking children to museums early is essential, not so they can understand the artist (stupidest thing I’ve read lately, I’ll be Jackson Pollock’s shrink if I want to try to understand him), but so they can enjoy art for a lifetime.
Visits should be quick when they are young, look at what catches their eyes and then leave. I had my six year olds drawing their favorite thing from the masterpieces - four days a week was a practice drawing, and Friday was the final piece drawn in a special art journal (that they still have today). It was an exercise in drawing, in appreciating what you see, and a first step to a love of art.
The modern art world is a fraud that mostly comes up with distinctive works to be used as currency and shelter for wealthy people’s money.”
You understand modern art.
Where was security?
When I was 12, my family went to the Smithsonian. In the Hope Diamond room, a security guard pulled my brother and I aside and told us she had us on camera bumping the cabinets with our knees and cutting in line.
Only one problem. We weren’t doing any such thing.
The modern art world is a fraud that mostly comes up with distinctive works to be used as currency and shelter for wealthy people’s money.”
You understand modern art.
The children were displaying performance art.
Deadbeat parents = feral children.
We often took our children to the Metropolitan Museum. But we didn’t spend a lot of time looking at Jackson Pollock and his like. And when we did, we said, “This is what they call Modern Art these days!”
Thnx, I apparently missed that one year after year...
My three children have been to all sorts of art galleries, as well as dozens of museums Presidential libraries, and historic homes all over the country. From my perspective that’s been an essential part of their education. They understand the nihilism and irrationality of post-modern thought perfectly well. And they have never destroyed a thing.
I vividly remember at a local theme restaurant watching a toddler climb all over the brightly polished fender of an antique car while holding daddy’s/grandpa’s car keys in his hands. The doting elder smiled while his little angel risked hours of painstaking restoration. I sad nothing but I’m older now and if I saw such a sight today I’d speak up for sure.
Yes Modern art is crap to say the least,
However, that is still no excuse for parents allowing their kids to behave that way in public.
If you wonder why toys today are packaged in a way it takes hours to get it open, it’s because of parent like this.
Perhaps it should be:
Should parents with ill-behaved children be allowed in art galleries?
Answer: No.
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