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About a 4 year old girl that sells 300Gs worth of paintings.
I'm an art/design head so this documentary looks pretty interesting. Trailer here.
In theaters October 5th, 2007.
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My Kid Could Paint That (What is art, really?)
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artbomb112
The Heights
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Can she explain it?
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mightymighty
North Side
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I'm interested in checking this out.
The question that comes to my mind is, if the father did paint these and passed them off as his daughters as a way to gain fame and fortune, what does that say about the work? And what does that say for artists, is who we are more as or more important than what we make? And if that is so, then what will happen to our work once we are gone?
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Ltrgman
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Obviously art is perceived differently from person to person. What I think is art may not be to you. So if there are people willing to shell out $ for a painting done by a 4 yr old, more power to them. If they think that is art at it's purest, fine. I personally wouldn't spend my $ on something like that. Even if I did I think I could find a better place to spend my fat wallet.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Coremodels
Really close to Explorer's Club.
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For some reason this made me think of one of my favorite quotes ever in a movie. From Six Degrees of Separation:
"how easy it is for a painter to lose a painting.
He paints and paints, works on a canvas for months, and then, one day, he loses it.
Loses the structure, loses the sense of it.
You lose the painting.
I remembered asking my kids' second-grade teacher:
"Why are all your students geniuses?"
Look at the first grade - blotches of green and black.
The third grade - camouflage.
But your grade, the second grade...Matisses, every one.
You've made my child a Matisse.
Let me study with you.
Let me into the second grade.
What is your secret?
I don't have any secret. I just know when
to take their drawings away from them."
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