Cy Twomby One of the most expensive selling artists in the Art World |
Cy Twomby
Anonymous Child Painting |
Michelle Gaugy
Michelle Gaugy The difference is that the child can do this only once or twice or three times. But no more. And they will never be able to get any further than this - designs, pretty, colorful ART requires a life source - experience, a story, an idea, a belief, a connection to something.
Michelle Gaugy
Painting on left is a child's painting the painting of the right is a world renowned artist |
And as Kathleen Grace explains
Kathleen Grace
I'm
so sick of fielding questions like this from people that I usually just
shake my head and say to the person that they know very little about
art if they believe that, and I often don't want to bother, a person
will have their opinion no matter what I or anyone can explain.
My
own mother stood in the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and
hollered at the top of her lungs, that she could scribble like that shit
on the wall. So, I know very well how this kind of thinking works and
how unwilling they may be to even embrace the concept of abstract.From my own perspective of painting abstract, it is harder, much harder, you have to draw from nothing but what you feel, and work to create a sense in your work that emulates or evokes a mode of communication. I tell people that it's like communicating without having any language and trying to navigate enough through the work in order to say something.
Abstract is harder, you start from nothing and build a work to evoke a sense of something. That's not easy. And a child's work can't be compared to an adult's, a child is making random marks that may or may not be interpreted at having significance or meaning, when an artist has an intent.
So, I just ask that you don't insult the artist, ask if they can explain the work and what it is they are trying to convey. And forgive if the beginning of the question sounded like an insult, it wasn't meant to be but the question is what so very many people accuse abstract artists of, that they have no talent beyond what their child could do.
Kathleen Grace
Kathleen Grace
And finally a video submitted by Annette McGuinness
Annette McGuinness explains and answer the question that refuses to die an honorable death with this approachable and entertaining video by "The Art Assignment" which answers also answers the question quite well