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.”
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.
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 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!”
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.
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.
Apparently these adults were not living up to their title, as they should have not allowed their children to play like that with something that didn’t belong to them. I couldn’t really see what the artwork looked like, though it was reportedly an angel with wings, but that is irrelevant. I get so upset with adults that do not rein in their children when they are out in public.
Some yes, some no.
A friend and I took our young kids to an Edward Hopper exhibit at the Whitney. They were totally entranced. Just stood there staring at the paintings.
Then again, some kids were taken to a performance of “The Good Times Are Killing Me” and could not see the basic fact that these were actors. They started taunting the “racist” depicted in the show afterwards and calling her names.
You have to prepare them. Things we take for granted are new to them. Some things are too advanced period. A little at a time, also—don’t tire them out.
When I was in 7th grade our class went to the Museum of Modern Art. We had to write up our experiences afterward. I made fun of some of the art but was not criticized for it. It was the beginning of a lifetime of art “appreciation.”
How prophetic that the artist would also rename the artwork the name for the United States due to the votings and actions of completely Godless people....”Broken”.
I've been telling my daughter that since she was 4 years old.
She'll be 18 this year. So now, her status is "almost a person."
She'll probably need lots of therapy when she's older. Hopefully, she'll be able to afford it after she buys me the beach house she's contractually obligated to provide me once she wins her first emmy, grammy or tony award.
How does one “ruin” a Jackson Pollock? The artist himself frequently urinated on his own paintings...
Good thing they didn’t step on that pair of glasses.
The good news is the UK has more abandoned coal mines than ever to store the paintings in for the duration.