Comments on: Art Market Blog – My Two Year Old Did That, Really !! http://www.artmarketblog.com/2008/02/04/art-market-blog-my-two-year-old-did-that-really/ Art Market Analysis by Nic Forrest Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MadSilence http://www.artmarketblog.com/2008/02/04/art-market-blog-my-two-year-old-did-that-really/#comment-976 MadSilence Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:41:50 +0000 http://artforprofits.wordpress.com/?p=376#comment-976 What this tells us is that fashion, fads, and greed drive the contemporary art market. Even veteran art dealers are hard-pressed to explain the direction the market has taken and the high prices paid for artworks. Even the child artist is not immune. Check out this post: My kid can paint that abstract art http://madsilence.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/my-kid-can-paint-that-abstract-art/ MadSilence What this tells us is that fashion, fads, and greed drive the contemporary art market. Even veteran art dealers are hard-pressed to explain the direction the market has taken and the high prices paid for artworks.

Even the child artist is not immune.

Check out this post:

My kid can paint that abstract art
http://madsilence.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/my-kid-can-paint-that-abstract-art/

MadSilence

]]> By: Lizzie Hall http://www.artmarketblog.com/2008/02/04/art-market-blog-my-two-year-old-did-that-really/#comment-975 Lizzie Hall Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:57:12 +0000 http://artforprofits.wordpress.com/?p=376#comment-975 I actually think theres more to it than that. If the mother were now to say that the work was actually the concept of using a child to make a work and tricking the audience, confronting them with their own preconceptions, that she was in actuality the artist as conceptualiser, then the art would be 'the trick' and the canvas would become the documentation of that trick. Surely this concept is at least as interesting as some of the tenuous meaning that people try to wring out of their art? I actually think theres more to it than that. If the mother were now to say that the work was actually the concept of using a child to make a work and tricking the audience, confronting them with their own preconceptions, that she was in actuality the artist as conceptualiser, then the art would be ‘the trick’ and the canvas would become the documentation of that trick. Surely this concept is at least as interesting as some of the tenuous meaning that people try to wring out of their art?

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