Sunday 5 June 2011

Four-year-old Painter

Aelita Andre is having her premier art show in New York today. She is four years old.
Her paintings are selling at around 10 thousand dollars a piece.
That's pretty good money for a four year old.
If she can make a new abstract painting everyday for the next 60 years she will have earned almost a quarter billion dollars.
Unfortunately that probably won't happen, because almost every child prodigy grows up to be an almost regular adult.

48 Comments:

At 5 June 2011 at 23:58 , Blogger phosports said...

wow, i was only earning $5000 when i was 4 :p

 
At 6 June 2011 at 00:15 , Blogger Finding Cheap Homes said...

Great Idea on the hidden post or math page, all the added links throughout your site will help with Search Engine Optimization!

Keep up the amazing work!

 
At 6 June 2011 at 00:54 , Blogger The Angry Lurker said...

Like it anyway you want but nothing wrong with it at the moment.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 00:56 , Blogger gman said...

not to mention her parents spending the money before she can grow old enough to spend it herself

 
At 6 June 2011 at 01:03 , Blogger Zander said...

I liek it the way it is.... I'll let you know if anything comes to mind :) thanks for stopping by my page. I love your blog! Its really CLICKS with me, ya know? :)

 
At 6 June 2011 at 01:17 , Blogger Dejch said...

rly? only 4? waaaa nice

 
At 6 June 2011 at 01:27 , Blogger BTN Hip Hop said...

jesus christ.
she needs to cash in while she can

 
At 6 June 2011 at 02:02 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Are you kidding me? I guess some kids could possibly paint some nice paintings. But still, 10000? Why not just pay some local daycare to force their kids to paint until you get something that satisfies you?

Also, math sounds great :)

 
At 6 June 2011 at 02:33 , Blogger baka1236 said...

do what you think is best for the blog m8. you shall have my support!

 
At 6 June 2011 at 03:19 , Blogger Delirium Tiger said...

Art critics are mindless idiots one time they were tricked into praising some shit monkey created as orginal and unorthodox view of sourrunding world. All that pretendind to love art snobs think only about new ways to show off so they invented whole new vocalbuary to express their hollow needs in wise words that are in fact worth less than shit

 
At 6 June 2011 at 04:07 , Blogger kxxthanxx said...

cool

 
At 6 June 2011 at 04:20 , Blogger Blk Jesus said...

pretty amazing for a 4year old

 
At 6 June 2011 at 04:40 , Blogger Alexander said...

I would rather see just more number posts, don't really care how the math works, that's just me.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 04:59 , Blogger Bob said...

Nice idea, the math page idea.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 05:24 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't really like the idea of 4 year old art being praised and studied. Especially when they can't reproduce the quality of work on an consistent basis

 
At 6 June 2011 at 05:49 , Blogger Jenny Petricek said...

Wow...a four-year-old art prodigy? Awesome!

Your ideas for extending this blog sound good...I would be curious to know where you come up with your stats! I think I'd personally prefer the hidden link for a more direct route to the math explanation.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 06:25 , Blogger Ante Babaja said...

thats amazing :D 10 thousand dollars??

 
At 6 June 2011 at 06:26 , Blogger Austin said...

Thats so ridiculous. I honestly don't see why people would buy a 4 year old's abstract, if she painted a Mona Lisa, sure, but abstract? No.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 07:49 , Blogger ed said...

disregarding age, i like her pieces

 
At 6 June 2011 at 08:01 , Blogger Mercurio said...

I wish my kinder painting where wort that much.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 09:12 , Blogger oinyo said...

My god.. I hope she milks this for as long as she can before she grows up and loses the niche worth.

I also think your blog expansion should be 1 page with links to the others to the right. Check out how I do it on my blog through the links option. Very cool and would work great for you.

Keep up the great blog!

 
At 6 June 2011 at 10:19 , Blogger PeaceLoveandSharpies said...

This is ridonk!

I sold Sharpied bookmarks once and people said it was too expensive at $3 apiece. :(

 
At 6 June 2011 at 10:25 , Blogger nowbuddy said...

jesus, rich people will buy anything if another person wants it too..

 
At 6 June 2011 at 11:07 , Blogger 123 said...

I like both of those ideas

 
At 6 June 2011 at 11:10 , Blogger Alekseezy said...

I wish my paintings would sell for that much money, this is just crazy.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 11:29 , Blogger Jon said...

Wow 10,000 a painting....man I should have a few kids and make them paint.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 11:46 , Blogger Dave said...

Amazing figures there lol.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 12:08 , Blogger D4 said...

I like the second idea, it's comfortable. That way if I'm really interested for one post, I'll just click that particular link right there.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 14:13 , Blogger RedHeadRob said...

Anyone can do anything when they put their minds to it :D

 
At 6 June 2011 at 14:19 , Blogger mindlessfrk said...

Her paintings are pretty good thought.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 14:20 , Blogger A Beer for the Shower said...

Some see art, I see splotches.

At what point can I throw gobs of paint on a canvas and charge thousands for it?

Also, those are some great ideas. Some explanations would be nice. Keep up the good work!

 
At 6 June 2011 at 14:54 , Blogger A Beer for the Shower said...

Is 27 too old to be considered a literary prodigy?

 
At 6 June 2011 at 15:04 , Blogger HiFi said...

10,000 bucks! That's awesome. Looking forward to the updates!

 
At 6 June 2011 at 15:17 , Blogger Alexis said...

My god, I wish I had been a child prodigy, 10,000 would be nice, even if I had done just one picture.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 15:26 , Blogger Biff Tanner said...

Great start!

 
At 6 June 2011 at 15:28 , Blogger dalexus said...

yeah I heard about her today

 
At 6 June 2011 at 15:59 , Blogger Patrick S said...

Fascinating. I wish I could make that kind of money. Haha.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 16:50 , Blogger Astronomy Pirate said...

She doesn't seem to be a prodigy to me, just some kid throwing around paint.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 16:53 , Blogger Whitelight said...

Intersting!

 
At 6 June 2011 at 18:11 , Blogger brn said...

wow that is a lot of money for a child :0

 
At 6 June 2011 at 18:11 , Blogger pixel said...

i really dont see the big deal with these paintings

 
At 6 June 2011 at 19:19 , Blogger sporktar said...

Holy fuck. I need to get into modern art.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 19:27 , Blogger Dola said...

that is pretty ridiculous

 
At 6 June 2011 at 20:08 , Blogger Das Auto! said...

I just enjoy the figures. Any direction is fine by me.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 21:33 , Blogger Ada said...

I like the hidden math companion idea. And I really, REALLY loathe Pollock for having set this up as a trend. I get Pollock's work and I get how cerebral his paintings actually were, but how can a four-year-old comprehend the concept behind this style of work other than DURR IT LOOKS GOOD? Art is as much about concept as it is about presentation.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 21:34 , Blogger Xenototh said...

Maybe she can be lucky enough that her reputation will make her work worth more and make it as a painter.

 
At 6 June 2011 at 21:36 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow she's making a lot of money atm! Make anyway you want your blog it's good either way :D

 
At 10 June 2011 at 16:45 , Blogger Thorfan said...

Lol the last line made me snicker.

 

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