Shannon wrote:

To the untrained eye, they appear to be simple daubs that could have been created by a two year old. Which is precisely what they are.

But that didn't stop the supposed experts falling over themselves to acclaim them.

The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings.

Freddie's efforts, which include works using tomato ketchup composed while sitting on his high chair, were posted by his mother Estelle Lovatt on collector Charles Saatchi's online gallery.

People are idiots.

Yes, but that's not the point. Sure, most modern impressionist art would look like Freddie's finger paints. But the difference between Freddie and say Kandinsky, and the whole reason why someone would be interested in purchasing Freddie's paintings if they thought he was a mature artist, is that those artists created their work based upon making a statement, making choices on how to produce the work and in the production of it, and inciting a response. That's what art is. Expression and response to that expression. The fact that it might look exactly like shit from a toddler is irrelevant. It even reinforces the fact that everyone can create art and SHOULD.

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