http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/my_kid_could_paint_that_the_movie The City by Marla Olmstead So a 4-year-old cranks out big abstract paintings, some people buy them for thousands of dollars, other people gloat about the sham of modern art, and, inevitably, doubt is raised over whether the 4-year-old is getting help on her paintings from one of her parents. Sounds simple enough, and like something that has happened plenty of times before. But Amir Bar-Lev's new documentary, My Kid Could Paint That, is a mystery. (It will open this fall in Seattle; I saw an early screening today.) Bar-Lev travels so far into the center of the situation... Copyright 2008 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:30:56 -0800 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:39:25 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I saw the 60 minutes documentary. I'm highly skeptical about her doing 100% of the painting. But the bigger issue is not whether she does or not. The paintings suck. Even the purest of abstract painters are still building on a lifetime of experience and knowledge about colors, forms, lines, relationships, perspectives. They are not arbitrary despite how radically disassociated from any recognizable form they may appear. These paintings are 100% arbitrary with always a handful of elements that appear to be added after the fact, and I suspect are not even Marla's. Lets face it.. if I did that painting I'd be laughed out of any gallery on earth and if I sold it for a few thousand dollars I'd feel I cheated someone. Maybe someday Marla will become a talented great painter... but the odds are not good and seeing the marketing of her work is as foolish as trying to put a little leage baseball player on the Mariners starting lineup.

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