Marla Olmstead, Child Genius.

• Needcoffee.com
  January 31st, 2006 at 4:28 am

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• Billy
  January 31st, 2006 at 10:03 am

  Interesting discussion about Marla here:
  http://www.artnewsblog.com/2005/01/4-year-old-marla-olmstead.htm

• Dave LaMorte
  January 31st, 2006 at 10:54 am

  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
  January 31st, 2006 at 2:53 pm

  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
  February 6th, 2006 at 1:10 am

  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
  December 18th, 2006 at 7:46 am

  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
  July 15th, 2007 at 11:35 pm

  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
  July 16th, 2007 at 12:54 am

  Confusion is my general state of mind these days, mat …

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