Posted on 09/28/2004 5:52:14 AM PDT by Pharmboy
I'll bet your kid is on par with this one. Yours is cuter, too.
My 4 yr old son draws numbers and letters all over his doodle pad. WHen he is finished, he goes back and makes artsy swirls all over the numbers or turns the letters and numbers into an animal he knows.
Any takers?
OK.
Art has traditionally been about the representation of reality.
Abstract art was indeed a movement away from representation, but that does not mean that previous art did not seek to represent reality. You're a cultured enough individual to understand exactly why the development of perspective was so important and what the current photorealist school of painting is doing.
Additionally, mathematical and musical prodigies are considered prodigies because they have mastered the skills necessary for their disciplines and added insight as well.
Mozart was a prodigy because he could play traditional music expertly and also compose innovative music at a young age.
If this young lady had mastered classical artistic techniques and was able to paint a portrait in the high style or a still life like the masters, and then had subsequently moved on to paint more innovative and difficult works, you might have a point.
She is not a prodigy - she is a little girl who has a nice eye for color.
Art is all about what you like. I like her painting "Dinosaur."
For art of an entirely different nature, click here:
http://www.scottsdalecollection.com/home_template.asp?index=srchAll&searchText+Hyde,Jesse
But I agree with Slim's take on this:
"Nice indictment of the art world."
Abstract art. Feh.
Wished. He's very dead.
I am looking on the web for the seen from the Simpsons where Homer asks the director of Looney Bin to which he has been sent how they tell the difference between who is crazy and who is sane.
Anybody able to post it?
He's still dead?
As a doornail.
There's a lot of silliness in the abstract art buying world, but there really is something alluring about this girl's paintings. Anyone who's worked in the arts or a creative field probably sees there's something unique about them.
Little Marla can count her blessings to be left out of this event.
I agree with you assessment.
I am not by any means in the know about art, I'd bet you dollars to donuts there are half a million kids out there who can do the exact same type of "art"
Just goes to show that "art" has individual perspectives.
I'm glad I finished my coffee before I read your post...otherwise I would have looked like an espresso machine with it coming out of my nose. Hilarious!
I (still) don't get abstract art.
Just the fact of Marla being left out of the "Rude and Bold Women" exhibition gives her artwork credibility in my eyes. However, does anyone really think that SHE thought up the titles for her work? "Asian Sun" and "Bottom Feeder" seem a little to advanced for a 4-year old's vocabulary.
There are, however, some pieces of abstract art that I like looking at--just for the ways in which the colors go together. I don't expect much from abstract art, so I can get a little pleasure from about 10% of what I see.
Really? Then so does my 3 year old. And every other small child I have ever seen play with paint.
Of course it is possible that I have the artistic equivalent of tone deafness. But I can't shake the notion that people who appreciate this sort of thing do so with the aid of controlled substances.
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