Jake Campen (Jake Chapman) from the creative Duo of Young British Artists the Chapman brothers in his recent interview with the Independent categorically stated that to take children to museums — a waste of time. The father of three children said that parents are too arrogant, believing that their child is able to comprehend the work of Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko. To put your child in front of the painting of Pollock — this "insult" to the pioneer abstract expressionism@

Jake Chapman found a sharp word and for all those who consider the work of Matisse as "simple" as children's drawings. "There is no connection... anyone who sees it, — village idiot. This is complete stupidity." Picasso as-то said: "Four years it took me to learn to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime needed to learn to paint like a child". However, Chapman does not agree: "This is to say that the child will understand a cubist painting because it looks like children's drawings... there is no connection". The artist, according to him, experiencing a hangover from all of these views in the spirit of Picasso that in the process of creativity you reach a certain childish state. I called his parents dragging children gallery and museums vistavka@

Such a categorical statement naturally caused a lot of objections on the part of employees of the cultural sphere. Beth Schneider of the London Royal Academy of Arts said, for example, that the presence of a child in no way detracts from the complexity and genius of the great works of art. Everyone takes him at his level. Agree with it the representative of the National gallery: "the visit galleries and museums to children is very useful... it broadens their horizons, develop curiosity and creativity, fosters a love for fine work and stories".

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: independent.co.uk, artinvestment.ru

Review AI: Well, you got it controversial artist, father of three children, and began to exaggerate. What had he said? He just-то meant that if the child will even perceive the visual side, we will not be able to evaluate the entire philosophical depth innovative painting. Because you need an education (not necessarily) and a significant life experience (required). And what is there to argue? This series can be continued indefinitely. I think fifth graders to fully understand the essence of "the prisoner of the Caucasus" by Leo Tolstoy or "the Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark TWAIN? So what? Remove them from the program? Now I'll understand potom@

Another thing — whether you need to drive them to the Museum on post-war abstraction or actual art? And where to put them-то? I do not know where in England, maybe with a governess sitting, and we possess a culture in itself go and you will take the children. They understand, by the way, much more than we think. If the parents horizons wider than Homer Simpson, nothing to worry about. For example, the second and the fourth class at the exhibition of the collection of Hirst — perfectly. The exhibition by Marc Quinn — great too. Checked. Fears 18 too exaggerated — children generation "iPad" at all difficult than-то shock in the Museum hall. A necessary purchase zasmotrennoy and can nujno@

By the way, in Madrid's Prado — where hang the work of Goya, inspired by the Chapman brothers, — children fully. In the halls sitting on the stone floor Spanish students, whole classes. Also I don't know, the poor guy that Chapman wouldn't odobril@

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI