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Marla Olmstead is an up and coming young artist in New York – she paints vibrant, colorful, abstract art. She has already sold $50,000 worth of paintings. And oh yeah, she’s four years old. Link (via Militantplatypus) |
Odds and Ends for 1-31-2006
Four ideas for individual posts that didn't quite make it. Doomed to wander Wordpress Limbo until...until...AH! SHAZAM! And they're here!
We would like to humbly add our names alongside Engadget and state that we too want that freaking robot ele...
Billy
Interesting discussion about Marla here:
http://www.artnewsblog.com/2005/01/4-year-old-marla-olmstead.htm
Dave LaMorte
I saw a few TV interviews with Marla and her parents and it seems that her work becomes a lot less sofisticated when her father(a painter himself) isn't there to help her paint. I think this girl is totally talented but I have a feeling that her dad is totally pushing his aesthetic on her tiny little hands.
Erik
And how is this girl a "genius-child". Some rich folks just let her spatter paint and paid a lot of money for a high-class website. Absolutely stupid.
Alex
Maybe so, but almost all child geniuses have parents pushing hard. The young tennis prodigy wouldn't be so if the mom and dad hadn't paid for those lessons, so what's so different about this particular case?
katie
Please, whenever something truly good comes around in life it sickens me that people....like the people who blogged before me, have nothing but negative things to say. Find something good in your life you can focus on, so you can leave this little girl alone.
matt
Katie, I think you'll find that there would be a lot less cynicism if there was just one of these so-called genius kids (that 9 times out of 10 happen to be American, hmmm, wonder why, U.S. media?) actually painted some figurative art which would prove with no room for doubt their wunderkind status. Abstract can be faked, or to be fair 'appropriated' far more easily that say, lifedrawing. Any artist knows this.
Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying the child isn't advanced or wonderful and so-on. I'm saying that maybe people are reacting to the way the word 'genius' is abused these days (even Alex seems confused). The same way as 'hero' is misused (hint: a survivor is NOT a hero, onlt the person who risked their life to save them) Your comment comes off as incredibly naive.
Alex
Confusion is my general state of mind these days, mat ...
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