Mark Wadsworth: Saturday art lesson

Saturday 12 July 2008

Saturday art lesson

5 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...: I love it when people say disparagingly of modern art "A child of 5 could do it". Because that picture is something one of my kids did at school. At the age of 5.; 12 July 2008 at 13:02
Anonymous said...: Some modern art is excellent but I do recall being led through one of the national galleries as a child (a young fan of art, especially the Renaissance, courtesy of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and being confronted by several broad wavy blue lines on a large and otherwise white canvas, to which I loudly declared, "That's rubbish! I could do that." The seated guard nodded in agreement.

On the subject of your line spacing on links, it's fine on Firefox but excessively spaced when I used IE. In other words, I wouldn't worry.; 13 July 2008 at 15:51
Mark Wadsworth said...: To which I reply "... and a child of five could copy out a Shakespeare sonnet."; 14 July 2008 at 10:00
Anonymous said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 14 July 2008 at 17:22
Anonymous said...: True, but I think Shakespeare can rest easy. He only has to worry when the random compositions of a child of five start to get close*. Similarly, I imagine your kid had a little guidance and hadn't spontaneously hit on Piet Mondrian's style (which to be honest, I like a lot). It's the ones that try to challenge our very conceptions of "what is art?" that I start to groan about.

* I doubt a few of the 11 year olds I teach could scratch out a copy of a Shakespearean sonnet so I wouldn't put too much faith in the average five year old.; 14 July 2008 at 17:24

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