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    Robin Abcarian: Another child art prodigy? Yawn. Wake me up when one of them paints the Mona Lisa

    The world of abstract art is a mystery to me, as I imagine it is for most people. When you're talking about colorful splotches on a canvas, what invisible committee decides that one person's talent towers above another's? Who sets the seemingly crazy prices that collectors are willing to pay? It's all very opaque. But one thing I do know: Every few years, a child artist emerges from obscurity, ...
    by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times Sep 29, 2022 3 minutes
    Young artist Andres Valencia attends his "No Rules" exhibition opening reception at Chase Contemporary gallery on June 23, 2022, in New York City.

    The world of abstract art is a mystery to me, as I imagine it is for most people.

    When you're talking about colorful splotches on a canvas, what invisible committee decides that one person's talent towers above another's?

    Who sets the seemingly crazy prices that collectors are willing to pay? It's all very opaque.

    But one thing I do know: Every few years, a child artist emerges from obscurity, hailed as a pint-sized Pollock or Picasso. Far too young to have attended art school or to have studied anything about the history of art

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