[Pharmboy]

It's as good as any abstract art I've ever seen.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Nice indictment of the art world.

[Lunatic Fringe]

People used to say "My 4-year old can paint better than that!"

They were right.

[Mercat]

I love it! This is great stuff. Seriously. I would buy it.

[arasina]

It's as good as any abstract art I've ever seen.

I like Koko the gorilla's artwork better.

"BIRD RED SLICE"

[MaryFromMichigan]

Marla has sold 24 paintings totaling nearly $40,000...

I must have millions of dollars worth of stuff our kids have done over the years.
I gotta find these "art" collectors!
Heck, I'd sell some for half that price!

[smith288]

Wow...the paintings look like a 4 yr old did them.

[opus86]

I'm not big on abstract art, but her stuff is pretty good...I like her use of colors.

[Larry381]

Don't blame the poor kid and her paint scratching because what's really funny is that the retards at the Times actually think this is a note-worthy art phenomena that has social significance- kid is probably laughing her ass off at these idiots.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I'm sorry, but that's junk. And that just goes to prove that "art" is whatever the hell you say it is.

[mabelkitty]

Jackson Pollock wishes he had such texture and tones.

[Drawsing]

(Sigh). I am lucky if I can get $50.00 for my watercolors when I put them on ebay. However, my hat is off to this girl. Art is a funny thing. Read "The Painted Word" by Tom Wolfe.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Yvonne M. Lucia, who turned down Marla's work for the feminist exhibition, Rude and Bold Women, to be on display in October at the Y.M.C.A. in Binghamton.

They need to call one of the works "Detached Phallus" to get into that one.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I'll bet your kid is on par with this one. Yours is cuter, too.

[macrahanish #1]

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

[tdadams]

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.

[cyncooper]

Yvonne M. Lucia, who turned down Marla's work for the feminist exhibition, Rude and Bold Women, to be on display in October at the Y.M.C.A. in Binghamton.

Little Marla can count her blessings to be left out of this event.

[manic4organic]

I (still) don't get abstract art.

[sonserae]

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.

[KellyAdmirer]

Very good for a 4-year-old.

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.

[OHelix]

The emperor's new art.