Hello and welcome back to ‘Artist’s Corner’, the bit of my blog that is currently paying tribute to the peerless artistic talents of my 2-year-old daughter.
I say peerless, but in all honesty I’ve never seen any of the art that her peers produce. If indeed she has peers. Can you have peers when you’re only two? I know she enjoys nursery and very much likes spending time with other children. But when she is with other toddlers, I’m never entirely convinced that they’re all exactly on the same page. They may well be playing together but it always looks like they’re playing slightly different games.
I like seeing Little Proclaims interact with other children. She’s obviously having a lovely time when she does. But I can’t help but feel a little rejected at the way she seems to instantly forget I exist. Which always happens when other kids are around. When it’s just Little Proclaims and me, I occupy a near god-like status in her eyes, but introduce just one other child, even a slightly boring rubbish child, and suddenly I’m yesterday’s news.
But back to the art. And this is the second piece in the ‘September Sessions’ collection. I think. Maybe it was the first one she did. Or maybe it was the fifth. I can’t really remember the order she produced them. But this one was the second that I took a picture of.
James Proclaims! 
This piece speaks volumes and they are turned all the way up. The absolutely fabulous Little Proclaims has outdone herself with the simple brown and black color scheme offset by the intense boldness of the lines the artist makes. Truly, a classic in the neounconventional abstract toddleristic style.
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The Neounconventional Abstract Toddleristic School of Art is indeed a prestigious institution.
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Oh yes, quite. And someone on this blog definitely should be in some sort of institution.
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Another dark dystopian vision; ‘Deceased Blackbird With Entrails.” Thats the image I see today. Maybe there’s no beauty in this beholders eye? Maybe I need to retake a rorschach test. Maybe I’m taking this waaaay too seriously?
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It could be any one of those. Or all of them.
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Whoa!! what’s going on? No colour! Metaphor for life at the moment?
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The brown stuff has certainly hit the fan
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This artist employs the minimalism style of painting, which is the art of using simplistic design to create maximum impact. The paintings grab your attention due to their abstractness. The viewer is quite simply blown away by her ability to translate raw emotion and energy onto the canvas, creating whole domains of colour and texture that touch a nerve deep inside our own psyche. Because her work is not constrained by obvious figurative or landscape content, the eye is free to explore the layers within and discover its own worlds.
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Perchance all of those worlds are better than this one…
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This illustrates the contradictions of life. The brown illustrates striving ever upwards, like tree trunks. The black represents total annihilation of all life, the end of the universe. Is she getting these ideas from nursery or is nursery a welcome break from lonely dark introspection?
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She’s definitely getting some new ideas from nursery. And I don’t approve of all of them.
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Her peers may be a little gothic, based on this work, which I’ve tentatively titled Crow Speaks Of Autumn.
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It’s a great title. Let’s go with it.
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Mrs. Herb took one look and said, “That needs to be hung up!”
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Then I’m very lucky that I still have the original.
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Yes sir.
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Ah! Cockerel at dawn. I’ve seen this work before, when the young artist had a retrospective exhibition at the Loo. I think we’ll find that in later works the theme is developed with more delicate brushwork interspersed with pointillism rather in the style of Georges Seurat.
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Slightly concerned that you were in the loo, I still don’t think we have enough toilet paper to confidently accommodate visitors.
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Don’t worry, whilst in the army (where, incidentally the premium toilet paper had Government Issue printed on each sheet[true story]) I learned to use, fold, use, fold, use, dispose! Too much information? I have more!
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The haunting quality in her art persists. The word “toddlers” brought to mind my son, who was in daycare, telling me one day that he didn’t want to have to hold any toddler’s hand, something the toddlers had to do when going somewhere out in public.
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I remember having to do that as a toddler. It doesn’t make all that much sense really so I can see why he objected.
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