"4 year old abstract painter dazzles art world"

[Telly Savalas]

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - A four-year-old girl is winning praise in New York and around the world for her colourful abstract paintings, some of which are going for as much as $15,000 US.

Full article from CBC

And here is her webpage, which includes a gallery of her work.

[radwriter0555]

1. Now THAT is come creative PIMPING! Beats putting her in drag and

dressing her up like a hooker and putting on a show (JESSICA SIMPSON)...

[amazona]

2. pretty sure this is the same old hoax posted before

But a clever way for Dad to get attention to work that might otherwise be ignored, I suppose.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[underpants]

3. Yet another crushing blow to art majors everywhere

:evilgrin:

[sam sarrha]

4. parts of some of it were interesting.. but just the same old crap

is have been to art schools... the rich kids get A's for dipping string is white glue and throwing it on an old piece of cardboard and spray painting it with cheap blue paint 20 minutes before class, which gave me an asthma attack and a bad case of hives.

i made a large Clypsedra it was a tall cylender where the water dripped out and back into the lower part where a float and pully system turned the clock hands.. the base below the clock face of the 3 foot tall piece was a piller sundial adjustable to standard and daylight savings time.. with ather related etchings and decoration.. the dial was to set the clock if it stopped.. the class was called form and function.

there were 21 students in the class, with about 180 pieces.. I got 76% of the comments in the gallery book on my one piece..and a fair amount on some others.. the second morning i arived to discover my clock throw out the 4th floor window and stomped into scrap. as i walked into class they all smiled..

Q] how many art students does it take to change a light bulb ??

A] 1.. and the rest of the class to say, "I could have done that".

[demnan]

5. I like her work

or her Dad's work, whoever.

Here's a point. Why wouldn't it be possible for a child to be a prodigy in art, when it's so apparent there have been prodigies in music at that age?

[ladjf]

6. Here's another miss direction example of art.

Years ago, I read about an art exhibit of modern sculpture. One beautiful jade green piece, unique with it smooth spiraling lines and angles was described as "The lady that sculpted this did it with her tongue". (The lady was a milk cow. The media was a block of salt lick
mounted on a post in her pasture.)

Another case of mislabeling: A few years back, some NY painter, famous for throwing buckets of paint at canvas hung on the wall, then selling them for large sums, hired some teenagers to come in and do the pieces. One such piece was sold to Silvester Stallone, who upon discovering that the name artist was not the one who did his painting, returned it for a full refund. The kicker: The artist then re-sold the painting for even more money, stating that this was formerly owned by Sylvester Stallone.

The greatest discovery of the 21st Century might be that the human race is too dumb to survive.

[amazona]

7. prodigies in art

Because in art, the artist is the person who has the CONCEPT, not the one who executes the painting. The 4 year old instructed to create some daubs by her dad is not the artist any more than the paintbrush is the artist.

A lot of John Gould's paintings were executed by his wife and by Edward Lear. The botanicals on some of J. J. Audubon's work were done by a 14 year old boy.

When a master artist operates a studio and employs apprentices to execute the concept, the master artist is still the one responsible for the concept and still the one who signs the work.

It is Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain," not Thomas Crapper's "Fountain." Either art is about communicating an aesthetics or it isn't. The only message the 4 year old is sending is, "I have to humor Dad." My mom tells the tale of how, when I was 4, I refused to paint "happy." I wanted to develop technical skills not produce splashes of color to someone else's suggestion. SO I'd call myself more of an artist than this child. :-)

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[pansypoo53219]

8. with the right materials

most kids could do abstract.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

9. I found a good link/discussion here

with a picture of the girl.
http://news.deviantart.com/article/16226/

[SmokingJacket]

10. $15,000???

I'd send the $$ to a children's hospital before I'd give it to a 4-yr old painter.

My kids do beautiful work -- it's all over my house.

But $15,000?? Sorry: that is sick.

As for prodigies: art is in the eye of the beholder FAR more so than music. A giant ashtray is Art if it's in a gallery. If someone says a four-year-old's smears are Great Art, suddenly, it's so.

I love art -- all kinds -- but modern art has a tendency to leak into scam. That's what this is.