Two-Year Old Boy’s Tomato Ketchup Paintings Fooled the Art World!

So our proclamations of “That looks like a 2-yr old painted it!” have been justified!

Neatorama:

“Meet Freddy Linksy, a 2-year-old who managed to fool the art world into buying his tomato ketchup artwork:

To the untrained eye, they appear to be simple daubs
that could have been created by a two year old. Which is precisely what
they are.

But that didn’t stop the supposed experts falling over themselves to acclaim them.

The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings.

Freddie’s efforts, which include works using tomato ketchup
composed while sitting on his high chair, were posted by his mother
Estelle Lovatt on collector Charles Saatchi’s online gallery.

She claimed her son was an art critic and and a familiar face at
major exhibitions, and added ludicrously overblown captions to his
offerings.

One creation of random red and green splodges called Sunrise was
captioned: “A bold use of colour. Inspired by the ‘plein air’ habit of
painting by Monet, drawing on the natural world that surrounds us all.”

And his black scrawlings in a work entitled The Best Loved Elephant are captioned:

“The striking use of oriental calligraphy has the kanji-like
characters stampeding from the page, showing the new ascent of the
East. It is one of Linsky’s most experimental works.”

And the modern art people ate it all up! LINK (Photo: Julian Andrews)