Behind every child so-called prodigy, there's a parent who has tried and failed to achieve any reasonable level of success at whatever it is the poor, manipulated child is supposed to be a genius at doing. It comes as no surprise then, to discover that the father of of the four year old girl who is currently wowing the New York Art Wankers (NYAW), is a crap painter in his own right.
Apparently, she "directs" her father, who actually applies the paint to the canvas. So what we've got here then is actually a man, who is producing poor facsimiles of famous works by Pollock and Kandinsky and trying to pass them off as the work of his daughter.
The poor child will probably not be allowed any toys, ever, and will grow up in misery, as her father desperately tries to live out his own fantasy of being a famous artist through her. "She is maturing as an artist", explained the insane, failed painter, spittle forming in the corners of his mouth, "she can nearly hold the brush herself now".
I say we should beware of the so-called child prodigy as they don't always turn out to be Mozart or Pitt the Younger. For example, everyone in Britain remembers that ugly, spoddy little antiques ponce from the Eighties, who had us all retching at our television sets everytime his weird curly haired, bow-tied face appeared on Wogan. It turned out that his whole family are simply mental, and live in a council house that's been really, really badly tarted up to make it look absolutely nothing like a Tudor cottage. From here they all award themselves degrees and Doctorates in totally bollocks and completely made-up subjects with laughably pompous names such as Paraphysic Psychology, Metaphysics and Systems Analysis.