Seven-year-old 'mini-Monet' takes art world by storm

[nick]

Kieron Williamson is only seven-years-old but his paintings are already selling for thousands of pounds.

Last November Kieron sold a collection of 16 paintings in just 14 minutes, earning himself £18,000.

The young artist's work is now valued up to £1,500 per portrait.

Kieron's passion for painting started when he was five-years-old after a family holiday to Cornwall, he now gets most of his inspiration from the coast of East Anglia.

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[mrmcdonaldduck]

lucky kid, he only has to pay attention in art and he is set for life and when he gets older he will probably get more money for his work.

[Uprising]

100x better than my stickfigures

[2D]

I hate people like that.

[Kaius]

Wow, thats one impressive kid. hes pretty much set for life and he hasn't even started high school yet

[Giles]

YES! A Brit :D
Good luck to the kid, if he sticks at it then he'll be stupidly rich by the time he's 20.

[Sage]

It's people like this that piss the fuck out of artists like myself who spend years just trying to build up a decent portfolio of work and get noticed by a few people. Congratulations brat, you're famous and haven't worked a day in your whole goddamned life.

[The Batman]

YES! A Brit :D
Good luck to the kid, if he sticks at it then he'll be stupidly rich by the time he's 20.

By the time he's 20 no one will care anymore.

Also why do people seem jealous of natural born ability? If the kid can paint so what he's doing what he loves just because he's 7 it doesn't mean he shouldn't be noticed because of it.

[Sage]

Also why do people seem jealous of natural born ability?

It undermines the practice of people who bust their ass for years to get good at it and perpetuates the self-defeating mentality of teenagers everywhere that people are either naturally good at something or not- Which is not true, anyone with the drive to push themselves and learn something can be good at it.

[nick]

Hey, the kid cant help having precocious talent. Personally I would think its way too soon to say that it guarantees him success when he's older though.

[Sage]

Hey, the kid cant help having precocious talent.

Doesn't mean he deserves one bit of the attention he receives.

[deadpie]

Reminds me of this movie -

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Mykidpaintthatver2.jpg

"My Kid Could Paint That is a 2007 documentary film by director Amir Bar-Lev (who also directed 2000's Fighter). The movie follows the early artistic career of Marla Olmstead, a young girl from Binghamton, NY who gains fame first as a child prodigy painter of abstract art, and then becomes the subject of controversy concerning whether she truly completed the paintings herself or did so with her parents' assistance and/or direction. The film was bought by Sony Pictures Classics in 2007 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Marla's father, an amateur painter, describes how Marla watches him paint, wants to help, and is given her own canvas and supplies. A friend asks to hang Marla's pictures in his coffee shop and is surprised when people ask to buy them. A local newspaper reporter, Elizabeth Cohen, writes a piece about Marla, after first asking her parents if they really want her to do so. Cohen's story is picked up by the New York Times, and Marla becomes a media celebrity, with appearances on television and shows at galleries in New York and Los Angeles. Sales of her work earn over $300,000. The tone of the documentary turns with a scene of Marla's parents watching a February 2005 report by CBS News' 60 Minutes II that questions whether Marla painted the works attributed to her. 60 Minutes enlisted the help of Ellen Winner, a child psychologist who studies cognition in the arts and gifted children. Seeing video images of some of the paintings attributed to Marla, Winner initially reacts positively, stating: "It's absolutely beautiful. You could slip it into the Museum of Modern Art and absolutely get away with it." The 60 Minutes reporter, Charlie Rose, then shows Winner what he describes as "50 minutes of videotape shot by us and by Marla's parents." After seeing this footage, Winner states: "This is eye-opening to me, to see her actually painting." "

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