Nashville Arts Magazine asked several art experts to distinguish the work of a celebrated abstract expressionist (Joan Mitchell) from a painting created by a three-year-old. in some cases, Lylah’s painting won.
Who is little Lylah?
And did our experiment break the rules?
Demetria Kalodimos investigates!
It’s a sunny afternoon in Lylah’s unconventional playground—a hidden industrial park in East Nashville. I’ve driven up and down the street, lost, before Lylah’s dad waves me in from his roll-up garage door. I’m here to watch her paint, but she’d rather twirl in a polka-dot flamenco dress her grandmother just brought from overseas. She fiddles with an iPad, tosses aside a well-worn Barbie doll, and seems most excited at the possibility that I just might relent and play “chase” around Daddy’s studio.
Lylah just turned three. Golden curls, blue chipped toenails, ball of fire. The very picture of an ordinary little girl. Yet the pictures she’s creating, almost effortlessly, pose a puzzling question: Could her visual sense be extraordinarily heightened? Do we have a prodigy in our midst?
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