A child couldn’t paint that – can people tell abstract art from a child’s or chimp’s work?

Not Exactly Rocket Science
By Ed Yong
Mar 14, 2011 2:00 PMMay 21, 2019 4:32 PM
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If you wander through New York’s Museum of Modern Art, you’ll eventually come across Painting Number 2 by Franz Kline, a set of thick, unruly black lines on a white canvas. Elsewhere, you will find one of Mark Rothko’s many untitled works, consisting of various coloured rectangles. And in front of both paintings, you will inevitably find visitors saying, “A child could paint that.”

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