Posted on 09/28/2004 5:52:14 AM PDT by Pharmboy
I saw a guy on a morning show not long ago with his dog...the dog would scratch the canvas of paint and the owner is selling his works all over in NY galleries.
It's all pitiful I tell ya....
Anyone can say they are an artist these days. I went to an art show last year and some "artist" had put a real cow tongue on a piece of butcher paper on the floor and it was dripping down the paper....To many, that was art....
I must say, I don't see them when I'm walking down the halls at Walt Disney Studios. The artists I work with are truly talented, thank God.
The parents charging $6000 makes me think the art crowd is absolutely out of its mind. Then again, there is no hint that the doodlings - er, paintings - are actually selling for anywhere near that much ($40k for 24 paintings is under $500/per, still pretty significant), though they may after this hype.
Guess we had better start saving our kid's works of art!
Semper Fi
Exactly.
I like it. It has a hint of post-modernism infused with the spirit of surrealism and just a dash of colonialism with a side order of polymorphism.
From what I've seen, the kids typically end up with a few isolated splotches, or else they mix up their colors until it's all brown. Sometimes, accidentally, a kid will leave things looking pretty good. And sometimes, rarely, there's a little kid who has some concrete and consistent sense of how the colors work, and how to do things with them.
Like I said -- I wouldn't pay thousands for one of these things, but they do reflect something out of the ordinary for a little kid. If her parents and fans don't ruin her, she might turn out to be a gifted artist.
To each his own. I really like it. It looks professional and deliberate not simply "playing".
If others like it and its value increases indefinitely than it is a good investment. If you just like having on your wall because it brings you pleasure, it is a good purchase. If you see it as a joyful creation of a child that you place on the refridgerator with a magnet and then discard (or place in a cardboard box in the attic) once the child has grown so what?
Either way, at least this girl can go to college.
Hopefully. She might also turn out to have had her career peak at the age of 4. ;)
Red
If you haven't already, read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. The thought processes behind the promotion of abstract art over real art are well dissected within. ;)
Ayt age 7, she'll be hangin around the coffeehouses all night, drunk on pedialyte, screming, "I usedta BE somebody in this damn town!" :-)
I have been an artist for many years. As a teacher told me long ago, it often takes two people to paint a painting, one to paint it and another one to tell them when to stop.
What do you want to bet her artist father tells her when to stop.
I disagree with you on this -- this is precisely why she might be a prodigy. You're mistakenly equating training with innate ability. A "nice eye for color" is what separates a Rubens from the schlocks who paint copies of Rubens.
Mozart wasn't a prodigy because he was trained -- if training was all it took, there'd be a lot more Mozarts around. Mozart was a prodigy because he had the ability to form the music in his head, and make it come out right on paper.
Same with artists -- you or I could take art classes all f'n day long, and we might achieve some sort of technical proficiency; however, "real" artists also have that innate sense of color and space and mental whatever-it-is that goes beyond technique.
Or, closer to home, if you've ever had kids in a dance class, you'll have seen -- even at 3 years old -- most kids who obviously don't "have it," and a few kids who obviously do.
The training is obviously important for a prodigy to achieve her potential. But there's something needed before that. Maybe this little girl has it. Maybe she doesn't.
I'll beleive that. In fact, I bet he even suggests what color to use and where to put it.
But, I would add that it takes at least 3 people the third being the one who appreciates it (and hopefully has a bank account large enough for the artist to feel appreciated).
Yet another area where Ayn Rand is all wet.....
The emperor's new art.
For some strange reason, I expected an article about "Prince", with unseen photos from his boyhood.
At first, it was called, "Happy Stick Guy." But my agent said to try again...
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