Personally I feel her dad and the gallery owner where both responsible for this whole thing. I feel that they were doctoring up her paintings and passing them off as the work of a 4 year old knowing that it would cause a commotion in the art world. It is also my belief that her mother knew nothing about this and truly believed they were being wrongly persecuted. I really hope I am wrong for the sake of everyone involved but that is what my gut tells me. One thing that sits wrong with me about this film was the reaction of her adult support system when they were questioned about the authenticty of her work. If I were in their shoes and the minute the story flipped and people started questioning my childs work I would of pulled the plug on the whole thing right there. A 4 yr old girls does not need to prove anything to anybody. If however my child was old enough to understand what was happening, wanted to pursue painting as a career and people were doubting the legitimacy of her passion I would help her fight tooth and nail to protect her reputation. If thats what SHE wanted me to do. The reaction of some of the adults in this situation just seemed like they wanted to protect their cash cow.
On another subject and mainly from our discussion about what is art I hope some of you had the chance to watch Pollock on HBO Tuesday night. If you missed it I'm sure it will be on again. I wont go into it much other than to say if was pretty entertaining even for my 8yr old. He watched a little bit of it with me before he went to bed and then we talked about it again in the morning when he woke up. He was kind of curious about his paintings so we did what we always do whenever he is curious about something and Googled him up. That led us to a cool website jacksonpollock.org where you can play Pollock and splash paint all over a canvas. Knock yourself out. However to truly feel the experience you should probably do it while drinking and smoking a cigarette.
On another subject and mainly from our discussion about what is art I hope some of you had the chance to watch Pollock on HBO Tuesday night. If you missed it I'm sure it will be on again. I wont go into it much other than to say if was pretty entertaining even for my 8yr old. He watched a little bit of it with me before he went to bed and then we talked about it again in the morning when he woke up. He was kind of curious about his paintings so we did what we always do whenever he is curious about something and Googled him up. That led us to a cool website jacksonpollock.org where you can play Pollock and splash paint all over a canvas. Knock yourself out. However to truly feel the experience you should probably do it while drinking and smoking a cigarette.
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