The prodigy has already sold about 25 paintings, raising $40,000 (£22,000) and a new exhibition opens on Friday.
I never get modern art but i like the sound of bling bling 
What is art by the way?
::hangs head in shame::
I did too :lol:
No way thats art. This kid has no idea what she is doing. But hell if people are willing to pay for it why not sell it.
Now what did I do with my first photoshop works
I think that’s a great art, maybe if you didn’t know those art were 6yo works, you might have a different opinion.
I think her paintings are good. She has a better grasp of color and composition than many of the adult painters I’ve seen. Personally I like the first two. I wouldn’t hang the last one on my wall if I got it for free…
As for what art is… It is whatever people choose it to be. But one of the fundamental aspects of art is, IMO, that it has to speak to the unconscious. So you’ll somehow know whether you like it or not without knowing precisely why. And some art strives to be not liked. That doesn’t make it any less valid as art, IMO.
I also think that it has to have some sort of subtlety and room for interpretation.
A few years back there was this exhibition here in Denmark where a guy cut a pig into pieces and left it to decompose. There was a lot of discussion about whether that was art or not. I think all the discussion alone validated it as art.
maybe if you didn’t know those art were 6yo works, you might have a different opinion.
So… Are you saying that it is better to not know who or how a painting was painted, so that all you have is your interpretation of what you are looking at. I can dig that.
One day when I was working as a graphic designer our pressman was mixing up some colors on some chip board, he is no artist (besides being a registration genius) but the mix of colors he had made blew me away and it was in the shape of a crow on a tree branch. I asked him to sign it (he thought I was crazy) and I took it home and put it on my wall. I would have even paid money for it. Does it qualify as art, maybe, was it intentional, no. I don’t know if that helps but I still think it’s NUTS to pay sooo much for a kids scribblings, and to call her a prodigy is just as nuts.
I bet abstract is all she CAN do. I bet when she’s 10 she’ll still be drawing stick figures, are they gonna be art too?
Seeing as she is just a sibling, she has little to no sense of what art really is (which begs the question, what exactly is art?). To me, what she’s doing is making a canvas of random colors. If we sat a baby in front of a piano and it started banging notes away that just so happened to be melodically sound, would we have our next Mozart? No. No direction or intention at all, just coincidence. Same thing here. If we got a million children under the age of 6 to paint something, what would they think of this one prodigy now?
I think the father’s just trying to make an extra buck exploiting his oblivious daughter.
DING!!! DING!!! DING!!! DING!!!
And god bless him 
If I could make a huge buck off of my kids art I would do it in a second. :thumb:
Very true, in my communication class they did a test like this. But not an art work but instead a poem. The wosrt poem they put a famous poet name on it and the best peom they put some unkown woman name in it(besiaclly they switch the name around).
The result, the worst one got the highest vote just because its from a famous poet.
So if they put piccaso(or anybody famous) name on the little girl work, I think everyone will think that’s a great art work.
That’s not art! Why would anyone pay money for that.
This girl is just a regular kid but her father is a good snake oil salesman.
holy sneaky monkey! freakin thats like me acting retarded and painting random designs on the marker boards before class starts at school…I dont get paid to do that >_<
you know, to think about it, I think the appreciation in art is strangley disrecognized.
When a person spend years MASTERING an art., and it is truly beautiful, on many levels, and his/her art sells for pennys, then you introduce this as true art and sell it for thousands, it is an insult to the REAL artists out there and further merges natural art (like an eagle in flight) with art created by artists (a painting of an eagle in flight). This should be a clear distinction, one is strived for and the other just exists as it is.
Art? Yes (Just like a student in Kindergarten would draw a picture of his mother… That’s art as well)
Prodigy? No
i’d also say that it is art, after all most definitions of the term “art” includes a lot of things
one definition (james monaco) for instance sees little difference between most sports and dance, the biggest being simply the way we look at it.
still i don’t think the girls painting display more than the fun she has using colors and moving a brush over a canvas, i can’t see how any reasonable person would pay more than 50 bucks for that
I think things get confused when art and marketing meet… I like the colours and maybe the content could be revised (or added), but it is ART, look at most artists, well the interesting ones anyways, always talk about the muse guiding them and being the conduit… so there’s no reason to think this girl isn’t an even better medium, as she isn’t tainted by sex or drugs or heart break. I’d never pay for one… but shrug… who are we to judge?
Its how you look at it. If you regard it as a bunch of colors randomly thrown out on the canvas, it might be different for her. Each person’s mind is different, and we all look at the world differently… it could be that her mind, untainted from social tugs like whats “cool”, percieves those paintings and those assortments of colors as something truly special and good. You can never tell. And what if it inspires one man with great social influence and suddenly everyone starts liking it… voila, it sells for a lot.
If the colors had any direction, I’d call it art. Otherwise, it’s a canvas with random splotches of paint on it.
Its art… but what she would do in art class would aslo be art, is it worth $$$ no, not at all,
but it can be, if you market it right, and thats all it is…
Simply put it, its children’s art thats very well marketed.
(See, under these condition the advertising is nothing short of art 
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such crap…
Anyone want to buy my peice?
$25,000
