Aelita Andre: Four-Year-Old Abstract Artist - Neatorama

Move over, Jackson Pollock - there's a new art prodigy in town and she's kicking butt and taking names. And dripping paint, too. Meet four-year-old Aelita Andre:

Without explaining who Aelita was or about her age, her mother showed some examples of her art to the curator of an exhibition she was herself due to take part in – and he was so impressed that he asked to get in touch with the artist so that he could include the work he had been shown! Once the identity of the artist was explained to him, he remained undaunted – the quality of the work proved that it should be included in the exhibition together with that of talented professional artists, regardless of the age of its creator. Since then Aelita has gained prestige throughout the world, and her paintings are held in collections in Europe, Asia and Australia. Britain’s BBC even congratulated her on her second birthday!

Agora Art Blog has more: Link - Thanks Karin Maraney!

what crap. nothing special about this kid. i've seen lots of kids her age make messes similar to this. she has no eye for art. or color. she's a baby playing with paint. and what she creates, in my opinion, is ultimately ugly. big deal. her parents found a way to build her an empire. it's all about the marketing, isn't it? so she'll never have to work a day in her life because her parents knew how to market/exploit her. congrats to them.

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She'd be "special" if she cleaned up her mess.

Otherwise, meh, every 4 year old knows how to make a mess.

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It looks like a 4-year old did this.

Nailed it.

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This takes less effort than teaching elephants to paint or whatever. It's not in an elephant's nature to rub a brush against a canvas. It IS in a child's nature to make a mess.

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All kids would produce "art" if their parents provided them with tons of paint, painting surfaces and never made them clean up after themselves! Where do they live anyway?

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I'm a child of an abstract artist, and it always disgusts me (okay, maybe more like annoys) when people pass off anything for abstract art. abstract art doesnt ignore the great concepts of art (form, shape, color, depth, unity, etc). It represents it in other ways. Real abstract art inspires; crap like this does nothing to the soul.

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Kind of calls into question the notion of a developed aesthetic sense.

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I feel sorry for this kid. She's being taught that she already knows it all.

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For some weird reason (I blame modern society) I thought I'd be the only one who thought that this is crap. Thankfully, I'm not.

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children are terrible at art...that's why you pin it to the refrigerator...so it doesn't get out into the world and embarrass them

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Apparently she's a recording artist, too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM-t_Ckx5GQ

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modern art is a fucking joke.

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Holy crap! My four year-old daughter is also a brilliant artist! Who knew? Now if I can only convince some schmuck running some schmuck modern art gallery to display her messes, uh, I mean, art, then I can rake in a fortune!

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Start with this statement:
a 4-year-old can do abstract art

add the word 'even' and you get:
even a 4-year-old can do abstract art

Crap like this is all marketing and no talent. But of course if I knew how to do it I'd be making money from crap too :o)

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I blame that hack, Jackson Pollack. Modern art takes no talent and never will. It gives real artists a bad name. Ridiculous end of story.

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I agree, she's not a prodigy she's just a kid with a pile of paint. There is no thought process behind it, no necessary skill involved. It's total rubbish.

He's a prodigy
http://www.kieronwilliamson.com/

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All you brainless individuals are what’s wrong with this world? You all are critics of a subject you know nothing about. Abstract art takes balance, composition, color, texture, movement, and the type of looseness that most tight realist painters lack. The fact that a 4 year old can balance all of these factors on large scale work is amazing. "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a life time to paint like a child" Pablo Picasso. You all should be ashamed of yourselves for the utter disrespect you spit about a subject you know nothing about.

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Sounds like a lot of bitterness. I think someone's a little jealous. I happened to like ALL of the art. I'd be damned if any of your kids could do anything like it.

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