My Kid Could Paint That: Inconclusive
10 April 2012
A fascinating but inconclusive documentary from Amir Bar-Lev considers the case of Maria Olmstead, a four-year-old provincial tot who produced abstract paintings that sold for thousands of dollars and generated controversy in the US art world.
Bar-Lev never manages to show us Maria actually painting the pictures from start to finish, which rather suggests that her father, an amateur dauber who couldn't sell his stuff, was the true originator of them and devised the story to get into the closed circle of the world of abstract art.
Suffice to say that the little girl is plainly talented and, at this rate, will make millions before she grows up.
My Kid Could Paint That
Cert: 12A
