Thursday, March 26, 2009

Prodigy painter


I've heard of child geniuses, but this is something else. Hailed as a fine arts painter genius at 22 months old... hmmm. If the family get to be millionaires and it later turns out she didn't really have talent but was just playing around, how embarrassed they'll be!

9 comments:

Aniko said...

I couldn't open it.

But as far as I know, acoustic perception develops at much earlier stage of life than visual. You can have very young music geniuses, but for painting you normally need to be elder, to be able to represent something in 3D for example.

But maybe if it is only abstract and without any representation of reality, it works... Then there is a big part of marketing and the imagination of the people looking. As we, humans, do have a great tendency to give meaning to any shape, it should work.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Try Firefox.

You're right. I've found it's nigh impossible to make any shape which most humans won't find some kind of significance to.

Anonymous said...

I've found it's nigh impossible to make any shape which most humans won't find some kind of significance to.

And I say it really was Jesus on that piece of toast, no matter what you think!

Alex said...

I guess a kid blobs down colours roughly how they are feeling and thinking.

For a adult artist they have to learn how to not paint or draw, but let out the raw feeling. I'm thinking about a load of old Pollocks or maybe some Scarfe.

What is regarded as innocence in a child is genius in an adult. How is that fair.

c.f. Gorrilla Stink More and Apple Chase by Michael
http://www.koko.org/friends/kokomart_art.koko.html

Alex said...

Michael and Koko's art as a real link.

Anonymous said...

... acoustic perception develops at much earlier stage of life than visual.

Acoustic perception develops already before birth early in the womb (at least after the 6th month), which has many consequences for the brain development ... do you know the research of Prof. Tomatis and his consequences developping tools for healing ("Audio-Psycho-Phonologie")?

See for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomatis ... (of course) the medical mainstream doesn't agree with him, but there are many experiences about very positive results.

Anonymous said...

this is the place to go for pompous know nothing blowhards

combine godlike stupidity with equal amount of pretention and you get aniko.....or eolake

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Well, if you gotta blow, blow hard.

hangar said...

If they were embarrassed, I bet rolling around in their millions would cheer them up.

I won't be surprised if this kid ends up like one of the cast of Diff'rent Strokes.