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To: Tijeras_Slim; Pharmboy

Her stuff is great!!!

If there can be mathematical prodigies and musical prodigies and sports prodigies, why not artistic prodigies.

Art is never about representative the real world and abstract are is even less about it.

Whatever "spirit" artists are able to tap into to get their inspiration does not necessarily need to come with age and practice.

I am even more impressed with her work due to her age and would gladly purchase some if I had that kind of money to spend on art.


6 posted on 09/28/2004 5:56:51 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit (Politically, Saudi Arabia is 18th century France with 16th Century Spain's flow of gold and no art)
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit

Well, alrighty then....


14 posted on 09/28/2004 6:04:17 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Pay no attention to the Nattering Newbies of Negativism)
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
I am even more impressed with her work due to her age and would gladly purchase some if I had that kind of money to spend on art.

I have a bridge to sell you...

16 posted on 09/28/2004 6:05:31 AM PDT by smith288 (ejsmithweb.com)
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
Art is never about representative the real world and abstract are is even less about it.

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.

25 posted on 09/28/2004 6:12:41 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
There is nothing special about this. Any 4 year old with access to paint could & would do it. Maybe you would be interested in a set of ceramic plates that my grandchildren decorated?
43 posted on 09/28/2004 6:48:56 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
"If there can be mathematical prodigies and musical prodigies and sports prodigies, why not artistic prodigies."

A mathematical prodigy in the similar vein would produce the following:

53 - = = 45 / = = 3 ^ a = = 9+ + 4
See it has symbols of mathematics in it but means nothing. The total quantity of information this girl transmits is identical to a random color generator. She might one day have talent, but to revel in randomness and complete happenstance instead of intentional creative art is just further useless nihilism in the art world.
65 posted on 09/28/2004 7:16:45 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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