Art exhibit by 12-year-old 'young Jackson Pollock' opens in New York

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A 12-year-old from Vietnam is making waves in New York’s art world, with paintings from his first solo exhibition selling for over $150,000

NEW YORK - Cynics who view pricy abstract art and scoff “a kid probably painted that” are finally right.

Now the seventh grade student from Vietnam is hosting his first solo exhibition, at the George Berges Gallery in Manhattan’s upscale SoHo neighborhood. The exhibition titled “Big World, Little Eyes,” which opened on Thursday and runs through Jan. 2, comes years after the artist who started painting at age 4 made his first sale.

Chu first picked up a paintbrush after begging his mother, who owns an art gallery in Vietnam, to allow him to paint with his older brothers.“My mom told me I was going to have an exhibition in New York. So, I was like, ‘Oh, let’s make a big painting for this.’ That took like three months,” Chu said.

 

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His work is brilliant. Please stop quantifying it with a dollar amount. His quality of work & precision of thought is at par with masters & he is a prodigy. So stop quantifying his work in money. It's worth a hell of a lot more.

Google “government operation modern art”

I started painting at 4 and it looks like he’s copied my early paintings. Very suspicious. Zero value except money laundering for the...

High prices for art like this is often cover for money laundering. TheMoreYouKnow

Some people have more more than common sense!

If the artist was a 50 year old white guy, would they fetch the same price? Just curious...

Wow 🍨

Proving once again that art is subjective, and that investors in art are idiots.

Gallery owners make artists.

$150K?!

I like his favourite one, quite like the waves of ocean.

Proving some folks have to much money.

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