MY KID COULD PAINT THAT d: Amir Bar-Lev
My Kid Could Paint That (2007)
Direction: Amir Bar-Lev
By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
In a real sense, the 83-minute documentary My Kid Could Paint That is one of the most disgusting films of all time. It disgusts because
a) it so vividly displays the utter nonsense and stupidity of the modern art scamming that has gone on for the last half century or more (especially in Abstract Expressionism) — and that’s a good thing; and
b) it so vividly displays the exploitation of an innocent child, Marla Olmstead, to meet the personal and psychological demands and needs of her Mark and Laura — and that’s a bad thing.
Basically, the film, [...]
by Dan Schneider | April 10, 2009
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Tags: Amir Bar-Lev, Art, Child Prodigies, Documentaries, DVDs, Film Reviews, Marla Olmstead, Michael Kimmelman, My Kid Could Paint That, Painters
MY KID COULD PAINT THAT Review Part II
MY KID COULD PAINT THAT Review – Part I
The My Kid Could Paint That DVD’s best (or worst) feature is a brief set of queries directed at the New York Times’ Kimmelman (above). His answers and disingenuity make for an enjoyable bit of borderline hilarity as the man shows an utter ineptness in responding to even the most basic and straightforward queries on art, as well as having nothing of substance to say even when one decodes his pontifications. It’s as if he’s dedicated to the notion that art is the preserve of didacts and dilettantes such as himself.
Had Bar-Lev really wanted to push the documentary form further, he could have crafted [...]
by Dan Schneider | April 10, 2009
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Tags: Amir Bar-Lev, Art, Child Prodigies, Documentaries, F for Fake, Film Reviews, Marla Olmstead, Michael Kimmelman, My Kid Could Paint That, Orson Welles
