Four-Year-Old Painter Declared 'Next Picasso': Is She a Prodigy?
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2011/06/08 20:42:02
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Aelita Andre has been called the "next Picasso" by over-zealous observers, but at 4 years old it's tough to say whether the Australian painter really is prolifically artistic, or if the art world is just going crazy.
Andre's first exhibition, "The Prodigy of Color," opened in Manhattan on Saturday, Time reports.
[H]er art has been selling since she was a relatively unseasoned 2-year-old. The works at the Agora exhibition are listed at $5,000 to $11,000 a canvas, and she's sold at least nine so far — plus other pieces on the side, for as much as $30,000 each.
Agora director Angela Di Bello says she had no idea the work was done by a toddler when she chose to feature it.
Andre's first exhibition, "The Prodigy of Color," opened in Manhattan on Saturday, Time reports.
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Is there any proof that Picasso threw paint at walls when he was a kid? He's a great artist but I very much doubt his parents would have agreed to making their house into a painted mess.
obviously her parents gave the girl her own little room to do this
These people are total mental midgets.
No, she's not a prodigy. Here's what happened- the director of the gallery- prematurely (and possibly pretentiously) declared the work genius before she knew it was done by a toddler.
Now that she's decided it's genius- she has to save face and go with it- thus a prodigy is born.
Abstract Art isn't separating and divorcing from reality- it is picking reality apart and recombining it-
This little girl, as cute and thoughtful as she may appear (and I'd wager any kid would be thoughtful when adults tell them they're doing something wonderful and filming them)
doesn't appear to have a grasp on the reality she is "abstracting".
And kids can have an innate grasp of the abstract-
Let's wait and see for a few decades if her passion and ability to do representative art pan out-
By no means did Picasso start out as an abstract artist- he had to earn his bones as a realistic artist first.
This is really just mental masturbation.
Of course there are lots of kids who do the same- I did at 3- my mother was an artist and my brother and I were also. I started at 6 with a program with 200 kids from throughout my state- and we did it every single week.
We advanced through to abstract- it was my particular talent- but not just for the sake of a show-
In the art world- it only matters how much you can talk and BS your way through-
and finding a gullible patron-
Art without discipline and practice is just- money making.
Now the director is stuck and has to justify her (possibly impulsive) assessment of her genius- sounds like the girl has some willing parents too-
Kids are great- they're all free little geniuses-
I've watched genuine masters in action.
It's not something that can be mimicked for very long without becoming obvious.
Sodahead changed my answer
I could have done the same thing at that age.