Child Scratches Rothko Painting Worth $56 Million in 'Unguarded Moment' at Museum

People ^ | April 28, 2025 | Rachel McRady

[Zack Attack]

"That IS the painting!......................"

OMG, that painter needs to go study real talent, like Tunwa and Suda the elephants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XOl48ssdyo

[Jamestown1630]

It looks like a pile of parts, to me.

At least the Hirshhorn looks like a donut...

[Bigg Red]

No problem as the child could probably reproduce this “art.”

[MeanWestTexan]

Pollocks paintings were literal experiments with how new and different paint materials behaved under different circumstances.

For example he wanted to see what happened when latex (then newish) behaved while applied or dried flat on the ground or when applied with a stick or a flick or on top of different paints (say, an oil on top of latex).

It was a serious investigation akin to blood splatter experts look at how blood splatters from a knife or a gun or a hit.

He was literally trying different things to get different effects, not actually painting as painting.

No one was more surprised than Pollock when people liked his studies of paint qualities as art than him.

There’s a YouTube by him on it.

It ironically made me understand his works better. Like one he was trying to express anger or action by violent hits. And it does, just like blood splatter.

But they were meant to teach techniques, not be “art”.

[PUGACHEV]

Rothko is obviously not to everyone's taste. However, there is an exceptional Rothko collection at the Phillips in Washington D.C., including The Rothko Room. If you sit there quietly absorbing what you see without judgment, you will feel a complex set of conflicting and supporting emotions, conveyed only by color and the simplest of abstract forms.

[Red Badger]

I just found my life’s calling at 70!................where’s my paint roller?...............

[Dahoser]

No, that is the painting valued at $56 million.

[Patriot777]

You can pick up something phenomenally BETTER than that at any kindergarten.

[Bigg Red]

😁

[AndyJackson]

worth $56 Million

I think we found the crime. Fraud. or, at least misrepresentation of the quality or origin of goods in violation of consumer protection statutes.

[dadgum]

Art?

Fine, I drop “art” into the toilet every morning.

[Noumenon]

Is that from one of those Art by the Pound outfits?

[ridesthemiles]

EXACTLY

[ridesthemiles]

TAPED-—DUCT TAPE

[KarlInOhio]

I go by the museum janitor standard.

(Mona Lisa) Pretty young lady. Maybe she should smile more.

(Jackson Pollock painting) OK, who left his dropcloth here? Well, I'm tossing it.

(Marcel Duchamp's Fountain ) Which, $_&#@* idiot plumber can't read a blueprint and hanged the urinal in the gallery? The restroom is on the other side of the wall. And he even mounted it wrong.

[Honorary Serb]

I saw an exhibit of restored Rothko paintings at the Harvard art museum back when I was a graduate student.

https://harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/4768/mark-rothkos-harvard-murals

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!”

[UnwashedPeasant]

The kid is a modern performance artist. The painting is now worth double.

[PUGACHEV]

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!"

De gustibus non disputandum ... or to put it another way, one man's kitsch is another man's living room.

[af_vet_1981]

“The painting Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 by Mark Rothko is way overrated as to value. I prefer the classics and would not consider buying it at any price for my home.

[Ben Dover]

If you stare at it and unfocus your eyes, you can read “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”.