Source: New forum visual arts HalloArt.ru

“In New York, an exhibition of works by a 4-year-old girl opened in a gallery in the Chelsea area. Her paintings are so interesting to adults that they buy her paintings for tens of thousands of dollars.

As Channel One reports, the girl’s success is being discussed by the entire American press. Aelita Andre is the daughter of an Australian artist and a Russian musician. She started drawing before she could walk. When the parents noticed that the child was not only obsessed, but that his work also seemed interesting, they turned to an expert for advice. “He looked at the paintings and said: yes, I really like it, I would like to exhibit it,” says the girl’s mother, Nika Kalashnikova. After the gallery owner found out that the author of the paintings was only 1.5 years old, he did not back down. The same thing happened in New York 2.5 years later.

The children's triumph gave rise to serious discussion. Critics are literally screaming: "The child and high art incompatible! Art is the result of meaningful action!

However, galleries around the world are already lining up with invitations. Aelita Andre can rightfully be considered the youngest professional artist in the history of art."

"Drawn" by Aelita Andre at the age of 2:

Aelita Andre, Geisha in Red Komono - 120cmx70cm

One of the users New forum, performing under the nickname Tuareg, was not too lazy to copy reproductions of more than a dozen paintings, which, as parents assure, were drawn by Aelita between the ages of one and three years. Therefore, if the samples presented here are not enough for you, you can look at additional reproductions either on our website or on Aelita’s personal website. This is the comment I wrote Tuareg, having studied the child’s creativity:

“The site is poorly made. Could you order a professionally made website for the sale of at least one painting?! And the photos should be in focus...
I have already formed an opinion about this prodigy. Pay attention to the large formats of the paintings - all of them are larger than a meter (do not confuse inches and centimeters!). Look at the technique using small parts that should not be given to children at this age.”

It would seem that the parents did everything possible to prove to potential fans of creativity young artist that Aelita paints her paintings on her own. But here’s what a forumist under the nickname noticed: Posav after looking at the photos and videos, large quantities posted on the Internet:

“When I watched the video, it turned out to be not as interesting as in the illustration. The child sits on his knees and pours liquid at his feet from helpfully placed bottles. There is no conscious action visible there. Well, of course, the background color, the color in the bottles and glitter, accessories were chosen by the parents. It looks like commercial promotion, it's a scam. Although, who knows, maybe this girl will become an artist.
...there is a finished background lying on the floor, and a child is pouring paint from bottles. In fact, it looks like drawings of a trained elephant. But in America they buy such drawings of elephants. Why not buy the child’s drawings like these?”

"Drawn" by Aelita Andre at age 2:

Aelita Andre, Dinosaur Islands 30"x24"

I confess that I feel guilty for thoughtlessly copying Forum, I thought was an interesting message without looking at the original. It seemed to me that Aelita’s work would be more similar to the real thing children's creativity both in size and style. But having looked at the pictures with a format two or three times larger than the child himself, I can only admit my excessive gullibility. A child cannot draw like that. The hand and style of an adult is evident, skillfully directing the actions of both the child himself and brilliantly managing the actions of the Internet community. Well, how can you not believe in a wonderful fairy tale, looking into the lovely eyes of such a sweet child?! It is precisely this trust of people in children that parents-puppeteers take advantage of.

It seems to me that everything is clear. The advertisement is engine of the trade. He who has eyes will see the truth. Any person even slightly familiar with the modern art market knows very well the value of unfounded allegations that Epigone paintings, supposedly by a four-year-old girl, can be worth more expensive than work talented Russian artists.

I can only advise business parents to take better photographs if they really want people to believe at least a little in a beautiful legend about expensive sales. Which, of course, are not officially registered anywhere. After all, when information is spread out of the blue about allegedly selling children’s paintings for tens of thousands of dollars, is it really impossible to hire a professional photographer to create a high-quality portfolio?

You should also be more modest with the formats of the paintings, they are too big for such a small child. However, I understand, I understand... The market requires larger sizes.

My conclusion is that this is yet another scam in the art world. A scam put together with hard work, but not too thoughtfully or professionally. The authors of this project clearly failed to stay within the boundaries of plausibility. Ostap was carrying...

It is surprising that journalists from serious media outlets missed such unverified information while providing free advertising to adventurers from the fine arts. I cannot use another word - any person who has the slightest understanding of art will quickly see the unreliability of the legend about the young abstractionist. And I recommend that potential buyers get to know the author and his work better before parting with their money.

Nine years ago, a girl with a unique talent was born. Her name is Aelita Andre. The most young artist in the world has already sold paintings worth over one million dollars.

short biography

A talented girl from Australia. Her family lives in the city of Melbourne. The little artist’s birthday in winter is January 9th. She turns 10 next year.

Aelita Andre's parents are also involved in art. Her dad is the famous Australian artist Michael Andre, and her mother, Nika Kalashnikova, works on creating artistic photographs. The mother of a gifted girl is from Russia.

Hobbies and passions

If you don’t take into account her special talent, then Aelita Andre is a completely ordinary girl. She learned two languages: English and Russian (she prefers to speak the latter). The young artist loves chocolate most of all.

Nine-year-old Aelita also enjoys playing the piano and attends gymnastics training. She enjoys making crafts, which she often brings to kindergarten. The artist enjoys watching TV. Like all children her age, she loves programs about animals and cartoons. She is especially interested in videos about dinosaurs. The girl is interested in astronomy and often watches the program “Cosmos”.

Discovery of talent

Drawing is a hobby for the whole Andre family. Little Aelita from the very early childhood watched creative process parents. She saw adults painting on large canvases directly on the floor. One day, Michael Andre, while working on another painting, left a piece of paper unattended for some time. When he returned to the canvas, he saw that the nine-month-old baby had crawled to the paints on her own and was simply smearing them with her hands. Aelita Andre did this with such delight and passion that the surprised father allowed his daughter to continue drawing.

Since then, the girl constantly created with her parents, who gave her separate sheets of paper for this.

The rapid development of the artist's career

In 2009, when the baby was not yet 2 years old, her mother took Aelita Andre’s drawings and showed them to her friend Mark Jamison, director of the Brunsic gallery. Nika Kalashnikova did not tell the art critic who the author of the works was in order to avoid bias. Mark Jamison appreciated several paintings and exhibited them in a group exhibition in Melbourne. When the public found out how old the artist was, everyone was shocked. Some made accusations against the parents, allegedly using their daughter for profit. But Nika and Michael never forced the little girl to draw; it was entirely her initiative.

Just a few months later, the artist Aelita Andre became famous in China. Her paintings were exhibited at the group Masterpieces of the Australian girl created a sensation in the art world. One of her paintings was sold for 24 thousand dollars.

Solo exhibitions

Five years ago, the whole world learned about a young talent named Aelita Andre. The artist's works were exhibited at the Agora Gallery in the USA. The personal vernissage took place in the summer of 2011 in New York, it lasted for 22 days. The exhibition was organized at the expense of the author’s personal funds.

The exhibition included more than twenty paintings, nine of which were immediately sold for more than 30 thousand dollars. The cost of the paintings varied within $10,000. After such success, the girl began to be called “baby Picasso”, “phenomenon”, “prodigy”. The exhibition was called The Prodigy of Color.

Three months later, Aelita’s paintings went to Italy. In September 2011, the second individual exhibition of the young artist was opened in the city of Tuscany. Most of the paintings sold were added to the exhibits of private collectors.

Recognition by world art critics

Michael Andre and Nika Kalashnikova support their daughter in every possible way. Her parents provided the young artist with everything she needed. They equipped her with a modern workshop and bought a wide variety of paints and glitter.

Artist Aelita Andre works in the style of expressive abstract art. Her paintings have received worldwide recognition. Notable critics and art experts praised the girl’s paintings as highly artistic. In their opinion, movement and color, composition and liveliness play a special role in Aelita’s masterpieces.

The young talented artist approaches her work in her own way. She comes up with a story, which she then puts on canvas. In her paintings, the girl uses not only acrylic paints, but also other materials, for example, tree bark or branches, dinosaur figures or balls.

The little Australian artist herself determines the place and time for her creativity. Sometimes she has a desire to paint even at night. In the process of creative peak, Aelita Andre (whose paintings are recognized as highly artistic) can be distracted from work for several hours. But after some time, the girl always returns to the canvas to finish her next masterpiece.

Some art critics have repeatedly expressed doubts about the full authorship of the artist’s paintings; they are too good. In their opinion, one of the baby’s parents could have had a hand in the masterpieces. But Nika and Michael claim that their daughter is simply obsessed with painting and they do not interfere with her creation process.

Paintings by the youngest artist in St. Petersburg

This year, on September 2, it opened in Russia personal exhibition Aelita Andre "Music of Infinity". The works of the Australian phenomenon artist were placed in the Museum of the Academy of Arts in the cultural capital of the Russian Federation - St. Petersburg. The exhibition features more than fifty paintings by Aelita, collected over all her years of creativity. Museum visitors also saw photographic works, sculptures, personal belongings and pencil sketches of the artist.

The exhibition also features sound paintings by Aelita Andre. A nine-year-old girl independently and unconsciously created a new movement in the art world, “magical expressionism.” She combined painting and sound.

According to the organizers' plan, "Music of Infinity" was supposed to last a month. But Russian viewers liked the works of the youngest artist on the planet so much that the exhibition was extended for another ten days.

Paintings painted by young Aelita

Over the course of eight years of creativity, the Australian girl has painted many canvases. She presented such films as "Dinosaur Island", " space ocean", "String City", "Fairy Island", "Peacock in Space", "Kangaroo", "Southern Cross".

According to Aelita Andre herself, she will draw for the rest of her life. She needs painting like she needs air and water. The phenomenon girl plans to present more than one masterpiece to the world. We wish her good luck and inspiration!

One of the Eastern teachings states that there is a huge difference in perception between a person looking at an elephant and an elephant seeing a person. A person knows certain things about elephants and already views them through the prism of this knowledge, but an elephant has no idea who a person is, and therefore perceives him without distortion. Based on this, every inhabitant of the planet, according to Eastern wisdom, should strive for the same crystal purity of perception of the world as the aforementioned elephant. Then things will acquire their true meaning and sparkle with the fullness of colors, sounds, and possibilities.

Here lives a seven-year-old girl in Australia Aelita Andre, and she was able to convey her childish, pure perception of the world to us, adults, through her unusually talented works. The girl is an experienced artist: she created her first painting at 9 months, not yet able to walk. Dad, Australian artist Michael Andre, left a blank canvas in the living room, she crawled to it and began squeezing paints out of tubes... And what she got as a result of this mixing brought the little one into indescribable delight.

Since then, Aelita, thanks to the care of her parents, had everything for painting: her own spacious workshop, a huge number of canvases of different sizes, many acrylic paints, powdered dyes, sparkles, stars, butterflies, kitchen sponges, foil, various toys, details, beads, beads and all sorts of things so that the inquisitive child’s mind and the boundless imagination inherent only in a child find their splash on the canvas. The young artist is very serious and concentrated, her movements seem to be dictated by childish wisdom. With the responsibility of a creator, she creates more and more masterpieces.

But her paintings are recognized as highly artistic, according to critics, artists, and art critics around the world. They recognize that color, composition, movement, and liveliness play a special role in her work.

Aelita begins creating around the canvas with a game, into which she immerses herself as if in a serious meditation. Concentratingly arranging figures on the canvas, pouring rivers of paint, mixing different textured components, she is captivated by the story that is born in her head, simultaneously transferring it to the canvas. The artist says that her paintings are abstract, but they contain concrete objects about which she can tell a whole story.

Aelita is the smallest professional artist on the planet. Her first exhibition took place when she was two years old. The talent, of course, was passed on to her, first of all, at the genetic level. After all, in addition to her father, an artist, her mother, Russian emigrant Nika Kalashnikova, is a photographer, and her grandfather was also a professional painter. The brilliant little girl gives her viewer the opportunity to look at the world with the pure eyes of a child again, as they once did in childhood.

Her canvases, made using the technique of expressive abstractionism, sometimes resemble portholes looking directly into space. Fabulous scatterings of intergalactic dust and the flickering of distant planets tear us away from the Earth, relieving us of gravity. The pictures whisper to us that it is never too late to become a child again, to break through multi-layered rules, norms, teachings about understanding the essence of things and see the world in the form of a huge, alluring space, where many mysteries lurk that we still have to solve... But , with whom she is compared, said:

“It took me my whole life to learn to draw like a child.”

The girl was luckier: her parents recognized her talent as a painter in time and created all the conditions for its development. Aelita Andre has her whole life ahead of her, and she already possesses the skill that the great Pablo dreamed of and is improving it every day.

Willie Mosconi - professional billiards at age 6

The father soon noticed that his son was showing success, and began to organize exhibition tournaments in which his son had to stand on a stool to see what was happening on the table. At the same time, he almost always beat older players.

In 1919, an exhibition competition was held between six-year-old Willie and the reigning world champion, Ralph Greenleaf. Ralph won, but Willie's brilliant play opened the way for him to professional billiards. From 1924, at the age of 11, William regularly staged performances demonstrating his elegant trick shots.

Later, between 1941 and 1957, he held the world title in the BCA World Championship 15 times in a row. The number of various records related to billiards and set by William Mosconi would take a long time to list, but I will only say that the record for continuous scoring of balls (consecutive balls) performed by him is 526! That is, he pocketed 526 balls continuously and without errors...

The smartest person in the world is child prodigy Kim Ung-Yong. University in 4 years

At the age of 4, the boy could read Japanese, Korean, German and English languages. When he was 5 years old, Kim solved a complex system of probabilistic differential equations (after university I don’t remember what it is..).

He was then invited to appear on Japanese television, where he demonstrated his knowledge of Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog (Filipino), German, English and Korean. From the ages of 3 to 6, Kim was a student at Hanyang University; at the age of 7, he received an offer to work for NASA. There, at the age of 15, he received a doctorate in physics from Colorado State University and worked in the USA until 1978.

After this, Kim returned to Korea with the intention of pursuing civil engineering and construction. To do this, he defended his doctoral dissertation on this subject, after which he was invited to the most famous Korean university, which he refused, preferring to work at a provincial university. Since 2007, he has also worked as an assistant at Chungbuk National University. Kim Ung-Yong is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most clever man in the world, his IQ=210

Gregory Smith - Nobel Prize at age 12

The gifted boy was honored with a conversation with Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev, and also made a speech from the podium at one of the UN meetings.

For his work, he was nominated four times for the Nobel Prize, although he never received it. His most recent achievements include obtaining a driver's license.

Akrit Jaswal - 7 year old surgeon

Akrit attracted public attention in 2000, when he accidentally performed his first “surgical” operation. He was seven years old, his patient, a neighbor girl, was eight. Due to the burn, the girl could not unclench her fist, and Akrit, without special medical skills, was able to carry out the necessary actions and returned mobility to his eight-year-old patient’s fingers.

After this incident, the boy went to study as a doctor at Chandigarh College and is now the youngest student among all in Indian universities.

Cleopatra Stratan is the youngest pop star on the planet. Charges 1000 euros per performance

At her more than young age, she has the experience of performing for two hours in front of a large audience in concert hall, gets paid for it, received an MTV award as the youngest performer.

Aelita Andre - two-year-old artist

One day, the director of the Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne, Mark Jamieson, at a meeting with one of the photographers, saw photographs of works by an author unknown to him, and agreed to include them in the program of the annual exhibition. Booklets were printed and advertisements were given in specialized magazines.

When the machine was started, he learned that the author of the paintings was the photographer’s daughter, two-year-old Aelita. The director was, of course, shocked, but it was decided not to change the exhibition program, and the paintings of the young talent were released.

Schoolboy who taught at Harvard - child prodigy Saul Aaron Kripke

IN primary school Saul managed to study a full course of algebra, geometry and philosophy. His life is a series of unexpected insights and discoveries.

In the fourth grade of school, he took an algebra course, and by the end of junior school he had completed the study of geometry and philosophy. During his teenage years, Saul wrote a series of papers that changed the course of teaching modal (formal) logic, which led to the fact that the gifted teenager received an offer to work from Harvard. Like an obedient Jewish boy, Saul wrote back: “Mom says I have to finish school and college first.”

After graduating from school, Saul still went to study at Harvard. Cyle Kripke is the winner of the Schock Prize, an analogue of Nobel Prize in philosophy, and is now considered one of the most prominent modern philosophers.

Michael Kevin Kearney - university at age 10

24-year-old Michael Kearney is known as the youngest graduate of the university - he was only 10 years old at that time. In addition, in 2008, he won a million dollars in the show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.”

Kevin was born in 1984, has set many intellectual records in his life and has been working as a college teacher since the age of 17. The boy said his first words at 4 months, at 6 months he said at a pediatrician’s appointment “I have an infection in my left ear” (I’m sure the doctor fainted), and learned to read at the age of 10 months.

When Michael was 4 years old, he passed the Johns Hopkins precocious math program. At the age of 6, Kevin graduated from high school, entered Santa Rosa Junior College, and at the age of 10 he graduated with a degree in geology and archeology.

Michael entered the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest university graduate to receive a bachelor's degree in archaeology. He also holds the record for being the youngest graduate student (at that age, I personally only pulled girls’ pigtails at school and was in 3rd grade). In 2006, Michael became famous around the world after winning the game "Gold Rush" and winning $1 million.

Fabiano Luigi Caruana - chess grandmaster at age 14

In 2007, at the age of 14 years and 11 months, Fabiano received the title of grandmaster, becoming the youngest chess master in the United States and Italy. In April 2009, according to FIDE, he has a rating of 2649 points, which is the highest in the world among players under 18 years of age.

Kieron Williamson. England

Kieron Williamson was born in England in small town Norfolk. His father is a builder, his mother is a general practitioner. The parents could not even imagine that their son would draw. Kieron, like all boys, loved football, active recreation, and games with friends. All he could draw was color sketches, and not very carefully. But, as always, it was all due to chance.

One day the family went on vacation to the city of Cornwall. Kieron was absolutely delighted with the boats and sailboats moored to the shore. He painted this beauty. From this day his career as an artist began.

He did not stop writing after returning home. On the contrary, I took courses in watercolor painting and visited the studio. In the same year he opened his first exhibition. His paintings sold out in 14 minutes.

Owner art gallery in Norfolk says that Kieron has no equal in skill, because he draws equally well different colors, combines colors amazingly. His paintings respect proportions and shadows. Kieron's style of writing is reminiscent of impressionism.

They predict a great future for Kiron, because his paintings are collected by collectors in many countries around the world, believing that in the near future they will cost much more.

Dusan Krtolica. Serbia

Dusan Krtolica has become the real pride of Serbia, although he considers himself an ordinary boy. Dusan's first work was an accurately drawn whale, although his parents did not attach any importance to the boy's drawing. But every day the child asked for more and more paper for work.

Today, Dusan paints approximately 500 works per week. Depict an animal and vegetable world- his passion. But it’s not only surprising that the boy makes incomparable drawings with a simple pen or marker, all his animals are depicted with amazing anatomical accuracy. But Dusan depicts not only modern animals, but also representatives of the fauna that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.

The parents were concerned about their son's passion and took him to a psychiatrist. But the specialist noted high level the boy’s intelligence, and reassured him: the child’s “genius” does not affect his development in any way, and drawing acts as a kind of emotional release. Dusan gets along well with his classmates, loves all boyish games, and, surprisingly, dreams of becoming not an artist, but a zoologist.

Aelita Andre. Australia

Aelita Andre began drawing when she was not even one year old. As always, everything turned out by chance. The girl's father is also an artist. One day he left a canvas with paints on the floor and discovered that his little daughter was happily painting. Of course, he was only happy - anything for a child, as long as he didn’t cry.

But from that day Aelita’s love for drawing began. At two years old she already had her own exhibition.

In the girls’ works, they observe a surreal painting style, and their drawing style is compared to the technique of Salvador Dali.

Of course, many see in the girl’s works only “childish scribbling.” But critics just say that her paintings do not look like children's drawings. They admire the combination of colors, their own style, texture and composition.

Xing Yao Cen. Taiwan, USA

Xing Yao simply fell in love with San Francisco. He draws the same places many times, only from different angles. He especially loves to draw early morning or in the evening - when there are few passers-by.

Its cityscapes are simply amazing.

Xing Yao has an amazing “floating” oil painting technique. One gets the impression that he is painting with watercolors.

Now he is 29 years old, and with each work his technique becomes more and more perfect. Who knows what kind of skill Xing Yao will achieve in, say, ten years?

Shorio Mahano. India

Shorio Mahano works in the style of abstract expressionism. His passion for drawing began at the age of four, when he imitated the hobby of his older sisters. But the parents immediately realized that these were not just children’s drawings, but something more.

This was confirmed at the art exhibition where the works were taken.

Shorio uses a special technique of applying paint in several layers. It takes him several days to complete one job.

Shorio is delighted with his occupation and answers without hesitation when asked what he wants to be - an artist, of course!

Alicia Zaharko. Ukraine