Kids Create Them. Parents Submit Them. An Art Critic Reviews Them. And Don’t Think For One Second He Doesn’t Know Exactly What the Hell He's Talking About!
Age can’t constrain greatness. Mozart composed at five. Picasso was painting at seven. If one doubts that young children reveal signs of genius every time they touch crayon to paper, just ask
any parent about the artwork on their refrigerator door. But regular people don’t understand art,” so it is impossible for them to see the difference between the work of an idiot savant and
a kid who's just an idiot. In this book with its 60 color images of real kids’ artwork, New York art critic Dan Consiglio separate the wheat from the chaff in the field of children’s
art.
Consiglio’s review of one up-and-coming artist illustrates why identifying genius can't be left to parents. To the untrained eye, the painting appears as rows of watercolor polka dots in
random colors, but Consiglio sees more: The artist’s gorgeous symmetry conceals blooming buds of chaos. The artist displays an otherworldly grasp on this simple human condition: Repetition
does not remove opportunity, it creates it.”
Not afraid to call it as he sees it, Consiglio is brutally
