Children destroy valuable artwork while visiting gallery

telegraph.co.uk/ ^ | 05/25/2016

[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.

[ransomnote]

“Most abstract artists have the ability to draw a perfectly rendered rose...”

I have to disagree with you here. Just as self-publishing has attracted many people who can’t write to become authors, Modern art also attracted, along with gifted artists, a massive hoard of people without any talent at all.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Thank you Yaelle. :)

Correct you are.

[Trillian]

I like your six year old’s art much better :)

[SoCal Pubbie]

Yeah I didn’t discuss ethnicity. I thing in my case it might have Indian, the Southwest Asian kind.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Yea I thought they look good together on my door.

Thank you Trillian! :)

[Organic Panic]

[Ditter]

That is not what I witnessed in art school. The students who grabbed onto abstract art as soon as they could were the ones who could not draw $#^[.

[Organic Panic]

The only thing that made Pollock’s work famous was he was the first. That’s about all you have to do in the modern art movement. Talent is not required. Be the first to save urine in a jar and insert a crucifix. Boom, you’re famous. Be the first to paint the virgin Mary with elephant dung. Boom, you’re famous. Be the first to give finger paint to a chimpanzee. Boom, you’re famous.

Compare those works of Pollock and Warhol to Michelangelo and DaVince.

[piasa]

Jackson Pollack was a student of Thomas Hart Benton, IIRC...

[Blood of Tyrants]

Modern “art” is a scam. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3609779/What-spectacle-Student-glasses-floor-pretended-art-people-immediately-started-cooing-taking-pictures.html

[glenduh]

I’m talking the Masters... look at their training and early work.

[glenduh]

I find Pollack interesting. Especially his life story (crazy) and his early work. And the size of some of his drip paintings.. over 8’ by 17’.

[miss marmelstein]

I would recommend Camille Paglia’s beautiful book “Glittering Images” which tackles both Pollock and Modrian (but not Rothko). Aside from that, she also covers many other artists that are more accessible from the Book of Kells through Andy Warhol. The prints are absolutely beautiful and on fine paper. I bought mine for a buck on Amazon.

[Ditter]

Modern abstract art is anything you want it to be, including rubber chickens hung from dead tree branches. I have witnessed that.

[razorback-bert]

I often visited the Rothko Chapel in Houston, I admit that it took a few visits to get it, but once I did I really liked it.

[mjp]

parents were "arrogant" for thinking their children could understand artists like Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko

their paintings are spatial arbitrarily related juxtapositions of color that are representations of the disintegrated mode of thought

[Lazamataz]

What people don’t realize is that the best abstract artists have excellent drawing skills, a finely honed sense of composition, and a deep understanding of the workings of color. Most abstract artists have the ability to draw a perfectly rendered rose or a realistic portrait, but they choose not to. Instead they choose to express their creativity by creating a visual experience that is more free and unencumbered by the weight of objects.

What rot.

[Chad N. Freud]

Perfect statement!

I’ve always used that rule of thumb. I don’t remember stating it so well, though.

[Ditter]

Whatever floats yer boat , pilgrim! ; )

[Don W]

If you were my parent you would have quit that activity set after the third or fourth utter chicken scrawl produced by these completely talentless hands. I have difficulty drawing a straight line with a ruler. Absolutely nothing I have ever drawn looks remotely like what I was attempting to portray.

Not to say I don’t appreciate art, but some folks (like myself) found every art course/class/session a complete waste of our and the instructor’s time.

Courses on enjoying and interpreting art are a completely different subject. I mostly enjoyed those when I took them. Until the stupid instructor brought out the paper and pencils for us to scribble on. AARGH! One time the class leader accused me of intentionally sabotaging her class. I brought her some samples from other classes. She never asked me to draw again, thank G_d.