Jackson Bollock v Marla Olmstead

[Mick Mac]

Modern Art - a 4 year old's paintings are sold for hundreds of thousands.

She is being compared to Jackson Pollock.

Does this say more about Marla Olmstead being a child prodigy or Jackson Pollock painting like a child?

I'm watching "The Kid that could paint...Marla Olmstead" BBC4 tonight.

Marla Olmstead

[Mick Mac]

Its interesting how the programme developed.

Firstly she was a 3 and 4 year old genius. The talk of the art world.

Then she was universally derided as a fraud after a "60 minutes" documentary showed her father as being involved in the paintings.

Then she rebuilt her reputation.

Then, after all that, she had her 5th birthday.

At the end of the programme the Mother breaks down on film and says "why have we put our children through this". The father does not appear to agree.

[HAL9000]

This program reminded me of the Balloon Boy Hoaxers - someone should have asked little Marla who did the paintings - she would have told them it was her dad.

[woofmarkthedog]

Come on...

A kid.....

http://c0424372.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/marla-olmstead.jpg

could do this ...Meh

W**F