Comments on: My Kid Could Paint That http://jeffberryman.com/2008/09/10/my-kid-could-paint-that/ Cobbling together the artist's life...acting, writing, directing, teaching...making beauty... Fri, 18 May 2012 19:43:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bruce W http://jeffberryman.com/2008/09/10/my-kid-could-paint-that/#comment-1932 Tue, 10 May 2011 04:42:34 +0000 http://jeffberryman.wordpress.com/?p=305#comment-1932 just saw this entry on your blog. I own a copy of this movie. I think it comments on several things, actually, as well as art. A group could watch this film and have a really rousing dialog afterward.
With reference to the last question– she was probably “coached” a little. How many of us have “coached” our kids when we see something there that they are too young to see for themselves? It’s actually one of the other commentaries in the film—parent/child relationships. What we do or don’t do. How we promote our children. How we help them, or how we think we are helping them.
A lot of stuff in there.

]]> By: My Kid Could Paint That II « jeffberryman.com http://jeffberryman.com/2008/09/10/my-kid-could-paint-that/#comment-670 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:03:31 +0000 http://jeffberryman.wordpress.com/?p=305#comment-670 [...] to Comments The Wednesday Night Film Fest at my house watched My Kid Could Paint That last night. I blogged about the film last week, so I won’t cover old ground, but the story follows the meteoric [...]

]]> By: jeffberryman http://jeffberryman.com/2008/09/10/my-kid-could-paint-that/#comment-644 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:19:59 +0000 http://jeffberryman.wordpress.com/?p=305#comment-644 So do you think she painted them alone?

]]> By: Jeffrey Overstreet http://jeffberryman.com/2008/09/10/my-kid-could-paint-that/#comment-639 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:11:08 +0000 http://jeffberryman.wordpress.com/?p=305#comment-639 I’m so glad you enjoyed the film, Jeff. I’ve seen it several times, and different aspects of the story intrigue me every time.

]]> By: Rob Meyer http://jeffberryman.com/2008/09/10/my-kid-could-paint-that/#comment-638 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:04:55 +0000 http://jeffberryman.wordpress.com/?p=305#comment-638 Art is what moves me. My son can draw a dragon with such clarity and feeling and passion that it becomes Art to me – yet others would look on it as no more than a young man’s mindless doodling because of the subject or the age of the artist or the fact that it is done in pencil in a sketchbook. Yet it still moves me, perhaps because it suggests a story that is evolving in his head, a character that is living and active in his imagination. Certainly it is possible to look at various works and deem them ‘art’ because they resonate with the stories and characters who live within my own head, or bring to my mind a color or scene or sense of emotion which resides within my memory.

The sworls and colors in those paintings strike me as more than random sputterings, not ‘high’ art as the Dutch masters (whose works fascinate me with their incredible detail), but certainly something I would enjoy viewing.

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