12-year-old girl makes fucking incredible paintings

[I_Smell]

http://www.artakiane.com/vid-cnn-spiritualyoungartist.htm

I'm watchin some shit on Channel 4 right now and this girl came up who paints like really well. Her family are now millionaires. Check out the gallery (http://www.akiane.com/akiane_art.htm#). Spooky.

[koots]

Those are very beautiful. I wish I could draw/paint even half as good as her.

[Xambesi]

Read the page about her personal life...

She's home schooled, she has visions, and she was born underwater.
Weird, weird kid.

[Snarfnbarf]

Thats amazing, I can't wait till she gets older and can do more and tries different mediums.

[abroms]

Speaks four languages: Lithuanian, Russian, English and Sign Language

She can SPEAK Sign Language!?

EDIT: But yeah, absolutely amazing stuff. These prodigies amaze me.

[kavea]

Wow, that's amazing. I can't believe she is only 12 and can paint that well.
Also, the drawings from when she was little amazed me. Most kids when they are 5 can only draw little stick figures.

[Dodger]

She has amazing talent. She does seem kind of weird and overly religious, but whatever floats her boat. She's only 12 so the parents still have around 6 more years of mooching off her paintings. Sweet deal.

[MistyTehMoose]

Holy shit, even her artwork at 6 years old is pretty freaking decent. Obviously a bit of an oddball, but most artists are.

[The_Solipsist]

She should try spray paint and ink.

Fucking brilliant artist.

[SquidWard]

Holy crap I can barely draw the things she was drawing at age 4. That tree of life one is insane.

[Ziggy St. Valentine]

Holy shit fuck this is awesome.

[Arielcz]

She's set for life.

[Valkyrie]

Holy shit on toast. Fantastic stuff, even though she does seem a bit odd.

[Tyler_Legrand]

I dig "muscle man"

[adammatsui]

WITCH!

[Shmuh]

It was God's timing; I had been looking for a Jesus model for two years, and I could not find the right face. Then one day I asked my family to pray with me all day. We petitioned God to send the model right through our front door. The next day a tall carpenter came in. He was so humble, and I was surprised that he agreed to model for me. But a week later he called back to say that he was unworthy to represent his master. We all prayed together again, and a few days later he called back to tell us that God wanted him to do it, but he had to cut his hair and beard in three days. So we took a few pictures and I studied his face for a long time. After dozens of sketches, I started painting. It took me 40 hours to finish the first Jesus painting –The Prince of Peace-- and I still remember I lost four teeth in that time!

[Jewy]

Hey, I know this elephant that can paint...

[DoctorButt]

I can still beat her up.

But holy shit,the drawings when she is 4,is better than anything I could paint or draw.

[ultrasoundchick]

This girl is really talented. The fact that she is painting fetuses at 13 years old creeps me out though.

Paints from imagination, reference materials and models

What else could you paint from?

[Jewy]

She's going to be really famous one day. Is it wrong that I want to bone her?

[Matterialize]

Great, she's a bible thumper.

edit: holy shit, those paintings are awesome. I like "Wonder".

[JohnDoe]

How the hell did she do this when she was 7? (http://www.akiane.com/pastels/pastel_03.htm) I'm almost 18 and I still can't colour between the lines.

[Snarfnbarf]

She must be painting constantly, and practicing her techniques. I just want to know how people are born with this kind of skill!!

[Laurence]

Apparently she's hogging all the talent and all the awkward social graces.

But in any case those paintings are amazing and it will be very interesting to see what she can do in, say, 10 years time when she has matured more.

[HeroinMel]

They are pretty incredible for someone so young.
It'll be interesting to see that, if under all this spotlight, she keeps her hardcore faith, or if in 10 years time she's questioning everything she was bought up on.
Fingers crossed for another artist break down!

[Cocktapus]

That's just unbelievable. It's been a long time since I've been bowled over like this.

[TheHighwaySong]

Nerve Cell Growth is pretty cool. She's a ridiculously good artist. At least not all of her work is influenced by God.

[TheFerret]

Lets just hope she doesn't go through some angsty phase. We sure as hell don't need another angsty artist.

[Ikin]

Holy shit.

That is all.

[gizzalove]

She's 14 not 12 so it's not that great.

[MistyTehMoose]

Have you seen the paintings from when she was 8? No matter what age she is now, she's still talented.

[abbey]

I liked the toddler who could finger paint ninja turtles better.

[Vir]

She has all the right qualities to be the next big artist, she's amazingly talented and a complete fucking nutcase. I can't wait to see how famous she becomes when she's older.

[BKS]

Well, I guess its pretty cool to know that in my lifetime, I knew about a future artist who will be famous. There is no doubt this girl will be the da Vinci of her time.

[The_Solipsist]

I can't wait for her to realize her art does nothing for her, and her insanity leads her to drugs and better art, and eventually to shitty art and a life in the streets, only to find God again and be a born again christian.

[Petey2112]

All of those paintings just blew my mind. I have to agree with BKS, shes definitely going to be huge.

[LandMarkMoon]

Or kill a bunch of people because she has no form of human interaction.

On a side note those paintings are absolutely amazing for her age.

[ShadowFlame]

This girl is fucking creepy. She was this prodigy that was born underwater and wishes people would love god. I mean shouldn't 12 year old girls have better dreams? Like being a singer or something?

[Pelican Man]

I liked the toddler who could finger paint ninja turtles better.

Got a link?

[Vir]

I personally prefer marble drawings, I think they more accurately describe the internal angst I felt as a preschooler.

[Idioteque]

I love Candle, its just so cool looking.
I just wonder if it's all a sham and she'll turn out to be the art-world's Milli Vanilli

Also, she wasn't always a jesus lover:

Born underwater at home, on July 9, 1994, in Mount Morris, Illinois, to the atheistic stay-at-home Lithuanian homemaker mother, and an American father, chef and dietary manager.

Apparently she found Jesus at age 4. Awesome.

[InTransit]

Holy fuck. The moment I opened the site I was just looking around for clues to her not being the artist. Her talent is fucking ridiculous. How the hell do you do that at 12???

[ShadowFlame]

I thought Jesus found her

[paraskeet]

That's really incredible. I wish I had talent like that!
At 4, had a life-changing spiritual
transformation, bringing the family to God.

What could it be?!

[Tyler_Legrand]

It's simple. She's been possessed by Jesus.

[JennaHs_bitch#1]

As amazing as she is I would hate to be one of her brothers.

[magichorsepumpkin]

these paintings are disturbing...ish

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[Lag]

I think this was her early vision of Jesus.
http://www.akiane.com/drawings/draw_15.htm

[docmartens]

Her art isn't challenging. That doesn't make her an artist, that makes her a painter.

[Powerslideking]

I love Candle, its just so cool looking.
I just wonder if it's all a sham and she'll turn out to be the art-world's Milli Vanilli

Also, she wasn't always a jesus lover:



Apparently she found Jesus at age 4. Awesome.

I believe that this is a little too mature for her age. I reckon it's a Milli Vanilli deal. That or her mother took a hell of a lot of drugs while she was pregnant and she was probably drunk and past out in the bath just before going into labour, which is why the kid is so odd.

If it's true though then Props to her.

[Tweek]

She's going to be really famous one day. Is it wrong that I want to bone her?
I'm glad you said it first.

It would be cool if she wasn't such a Jesus freak though.

[Vir]

Then you just have to marry her before boning. At first I was like eww because she was in the little house on the prairie clothes but when she models some of those paintings, damn! Once she loses those braces and turns 18 she's mine

[bono]

This is incredible, I am an adult and I cant even draw a stick figure without fucking it up. She is extremely talented!

[Tyler_Legrand]

Her art isn't challenging. That doesn't make her an artist, that makes her a painter.

It has to be challenging to the viewer, not the artist.

And it's challenging the people in this thread quite enough; e.g. it's challenging the silly notion that only adults can paint this well.

Plus I'm quite sure that no matter how talented she is it's not like all she had to do was snap her fingers. Each piece takes days.

[beermonster256]

I think we should get her to draw cartoons for explosm, then we'll see how good she really is.

[Tweek]

It does suck for her, though. Children who have the spotlight turned on them often grow up to be sexual deviants and drug addicts. It doesn't help that she is super Christian, either.

[Vir]

It has to be challenging to the viewer, not the artist.

And it's challenging the people in this thread quite enough; e.g. it's challenging the silly notion that only adults can paint this well.

Plus I'm quite sure that no matter how talented she is it's not like all she had to do was snap her fingers. Each piece takes days.

I'm sure the paintings are visually challenging also, even in the photos on the site you can see tons of detail. I want to see them in real life where it is an entire 6-foot portrait that would be much more impressive and I think would reveal intricacies of the painting I can't see on my laptop monitor.

[detvarsomkatten]

Yeah, enough already! She's talented technically but the motifs tend to be along these (http://www.simplywildcanada.com/images/T%20Singing%20Lessons.jpg) lines. It's impressing but boring. Come on, painting Jesus in space with a dolfin? That's not art, it's just fucking dumb.

[Ercoledi]

I think her talent would be put to much better use if she were a Muslim.

[detvarsomkatten]

If she was a satanist she could make death-metal album art.

[ShadowFlame]

If she was a satanist she could make death-metal album art.

I would fucking love that. Instead of drawing gay shit like dolphins and Jesus she would be painting like wolves devouring souls and shit.

[Panda]

Her drawings at age 4 are still 20 times better than any drawing I've ever made in my life.
Ever.

[Dodger]

Apparently she found Jesus at age 4. Awesome.

It just goes to show the gifts the Lord will bless you with once you accept Jesus Christ into your heart. You all should take this as a lesson.

[Ercoledi]

That was one particularly successful game of peek-a-boo.

[Prawnatron]

Hey I-Smell, I remember watching that documentary as well, by the sounds of that, I think she's the real deal.

[Con-Con]

She reminds me of me when I was a 12 year old painting prodegy..

[OrdinaryCat]

A prodigy that can't spell prodigy.

The paintings are fantastic (and definately challenging) but the Jesus stuff freaks me out. I wonder who introduced her to Christianity at 4 if it wasn't her parents.

[Con-Con]

A prodigy that can't spell prodigy.

The paintings are fantastic (and definately challenging) but the Jesus stuff freaks me out. I wonder who introduced her to Christianity at 4 if it wasn't her parents.

Hey, I was a prodegy

[Clerlic]

Don't worry guys, I sent her an e-mail, she'll be painting awesome stuff in no time.

[OrdinaryCat]

Hey, I was a prodegy

Ah. I suppose then, that that means something different than a prodigy?

[10Fps]

Wow that's quite something, she was literally born talented. Still she has visions and immidiatly assumes its god? I don't get where the link to God came in, is this just "omg its a miricle! God done it!" sort of thing or does she believe she was told by God that hes doing it in her inspirational visions?

[abbey]

Got a link?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrdRrAjpcDM

[OrdinaryCat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrdRrAjpcDM

Hah. I love it. I went to the site at the end. Extremely disappointing.

[Casalen]

Why are people complaining that it's not good enough, besides the need to be edgy? What the hell were you drawing at age 12 that had so much more artistic merit?

It's too bad having 'prodigy' attached to a person always seems to require being really messed up otherwise. But at least it makes me feel better. I may not be able to draw a stick figure with correct proportions, but a decent level of sanity makes up for it.

[detvarsomkatten]

I'm not saying shes not talented, she is technically. And yeah, she's only twelve so nothing more can be expected. But talent is no guarantee that she's ever going to come up with something I'd call art. Art is a bit more than "drawing nice". I think that's what docmarten ment by the way:Her art isn't challenging. That doesn't make her an artist, that makes her a painter.

[I Lick Vaginas]

What works would you perceive as 'art'? Would you consider Michelangelo's David a piece of art, or simply a sculpture?

[detvarsomkatten]

It's a sculpture with historical value and it's widely considered as a "work of art", sure, but art in modern terms? No, I wouldn't call it that.

[I Lick Vaginas]

At least your definition is consistent. But, you still haven't answered- what are some examples of art?

[detvarsomkatten]

Wow, the whole "what is art"-discussion", huh :pop: ? I like Paul McCarthy for example: seriously, I do! (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Tierecke_mccarthy.jpg) and some of Andy Warhols work (as I think was discussed in another thread) was genious in the way it actually questioned what art is. More or less, anyone that has an idea with their work. That's the main reason I don't call a twelve year old painting Jesus and dolphins art.

[thomas30113]

She makes us "normal" people look like shit.

[detvarsomkatten]

She makes Jesus look like shit.

[Dacada]

Wow, the whole "what is art"-discussion", huh :pop: ? I like Paul McCarthy for example: seriously, I do! (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Tierecke_mccarthy.jpg) and some of Andy Warhols work (as I think was discussed in another thread) was genious in the way it actually questioned what art is. More or less, anyone that has an idea with their work. That's the main reason I don't call a twelve year old painting Jesus and dolphins art.
It's art, it's just not high Art. High Art is all about context.

She's inspired me to paint space and Bill Nye and shit.

[thomas30113]

But can she turn water into wine?

[Gilligan]

I think it's funny that her and her family are making bank off her "spiritual" inspiration.

[strangledcaterpillar]

That kid seems majorly fucked up. Either the lack of oxygen from when she was born or something, or psychological drama from realizing her parents didnt drown her properly.

[Xambesi]

As incredibly talented as she is, she seems like a total douche. No wonder she dropped out of public school- I bet the other kids all hated her.

[Cerberus]

As incredibly talented as she is, she seems like a total douche. No wonder she dropped out of public school- I bet the other kids all hated her.

I don't know about being a total douche, more stuck up or a bit snobbish to me. She also reminds me of Luna Lovegood I think her name was, the odd girl form Harry Potter.

[hollywood_maggot]

Why did a prodigy have to be deluded in THAT way? I can take weird, but not that.

[John Travolta]

http://www.akiane.com/paintings/age_12/paint_treeoflife.jpg

Cool.

[MistyTehMoose]

Why did a prodigy have to be deluded in THAT way? I can take weird, but not that.

It's actually not that bad, at least she is talking about a loving God, not a vengeful one.

[Ikin]

Her art isn't challenging. That doesn't make her an artist, that makes her a painter.

In retrospect, I agree with this. Most of her paintings don't display a lot of creativity. They just look the type of realistic pop-art you can buy at some street fair. :indiff: Although I'll admit the one JT posted is pretty cool.

[Nigel]

She has talent but it's wasted on the kitchy crap she has painted so far.

[Derelict]

What exactly would you consider not wasting it, Nigel?

[koots]

As long as she's painting she is not wasting her talent.

[BKS]

Just wait for puberty to start and she'll be drawing porn for us in no time.

[Ercoledi]

It's not porn, BKS, it's art.

[Tyler_Legrand]

You're all just jealous :frown:

[timbot]

She certainly talented, but I didn't see anything I really liked. The nerve cell one was pretty cool. But other than that I thought it was kind of boring.

Also, about the born underwater thing. I don't think it's as dramatic as it sounds. Isn't that just a water birth? It's uncommon, but not totally nuts.

It will be interesting to see what happens to her as time goes on. I'm guessing she never attains real fame.

[CCCP_Guy]

Wow that is amazing, she drew better then me when she was 4 then I do now, and I'm 15. She seriously has amazing talent, she's the new da Vinci. She's is pretty much just as good as most other artists I heard of.

[10Fps]

What exactly would you consider not wasting it, Nigel?
I think he means that the girl is painting rather than saving the planet.

[OrdinaryCat]

Aside from basic portraits she does have a quite a few very original paintings. But I also don't consider Andy Warhol, etc. art. I have been to his museum and studied his life and work and in the end, he really just knew how to manipulate the popular opinion. He was mostly interested in the fame and famous opinion. This girl, in her early teens, puts difficult ideas onto canvas. Art can question what art is, but that cannot be the definition, because the definition cannot contain the defined. I think art is more challenging the way the artist or viewer sees the world, which this girl does, which she makes even more obvious by the titles and the poems that accompany many of the pictures. I don't agree with her God obsession, but at least she's putting deep thought into something, and not just painting pretty pictures.

[junglebunny]

She got a mypsace?

[OrdinaryCat]

Speaking of child prodigies...
Ainan (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/11/prweb480311.htm)
Youngest talker, crawler, walker, runner, and at 6 is apparently now teaching science?
The blog his father writes for him is a bit pretentious, but I guess as he's some kind of genious himself and all three of his kids are way above average he has some excuse.

[Ercoledi]

6 year olds are only allowed to be this awesome if they also have autism.

[Casalen]

My apologies for not understanding what was meant by this 'not being art'. Now I understand, and will inform film studios at the next opportunity. The art department clearly has been mislabeled as such, since painting backdrops is not art. Someone else should look into restructuring college art department curriculum as well, since they got it wrong.

That above guy is even more impressive, since he's actually accomplishing something. That girl can create as well as much more practiced adults, but being able to do that with education means being able to make a stronger connection with youth and help them become enthralled in the same subjects. That's a big deal. However, he'll probably miss out on so much social interaction and development that his abilities are used primarily for evil as he seeks to destroy as a way of striking those who misunderstood or otherwise ignored him. Other similar geniuses will join him, of course, but problems occur when each of them seek to be the conquerer and leader of the New World, considering their ideas to surpass all others.

Plus, his lecture on the correlation between boogers and cooties was uninspired at best.

[docmartens]

You're using other people misinterpretations of the word art to defend your misinterpretation of the word art.

Scott Wyland, who paints all the underwater life and sometimes includes Disney characters, is not an artist.

Thomas Kinkade, named "The Painter of Light" because he illuminates every window in his paintings, is not an artist.

Art is something that means something. Is the Mona Lisa art? It is if the artist is trying to say something other than "look at how pretty."

That is why I go to modern art exhibits. Modern artists use grafitti, or computer design, or bike parts, or anything else to make a socio-political commentary. Not the garbage that stupid people put in their living rooms.

[BlackHood]

Art is not defined by its meaning, its defined by the connection a person can make with it. I work in an Art Gallery, and some of the most horrendous pieces of shit sell better than anything.

The fact that someone can paint, doesn't make them an artist, but if a piece takes little technical construction it doesn't prohibit it from being art.

I would say that she is overall an artist, she is putting on canvas an idea, an image that she has in her mind. She's no copying an image (for the most part), but there is less creativity than there could be. I think she could become a "real" artist in time.

[docmartens]

"I work in an Art Gallery, and some of the most horrendous pieces of shit sell better than anything. "

I'm not sure what you mean by this. And not to argue any other point of your post, because the rest is reasonable, but when we're talking about the pieces of shit do we mean pieces that are ugly, or pieces that are unoriginal? Because the ugly pieces could potentially affect someone more than a pretty painting. But if you're talking about the pretty pictures, then of course those are going to sell, because people just want something to make them smile when they look at their fireplace.

[ZombieGirl18]

jesus freak...good stuff though

[docmartens]

I had a friend define art for me that beats my definition. He said it is "an artist's metaphysical interpretation of reality"

Which would make this art, even if I don't want it to.

He also separated it into challenging art and nonchallenging art as well as good art and bad art.

This is good, unchallenging art.

[thomas30113]

She was probably the outcast from society.
Or probably a reincarnation of a great artist and poet.

[Derelict]

She would make a killing drawing caricatures on a boardwalk!

[detvarsomkatten]

I had a friend define art for me that beats my definition. He said it is "an artist's metaphysical interpretation of reality"

Which would make this art, even if I don't want it to.

He also separated it into challenging art and nonchallenging art as well as good art and bad art.

This is good, unchallenging art.
AHA! But what makes an "artist"? If your friends explanation of art is considered correct we have to decide whether she is an artist or not. I say she is not, because I don't wanna.

[TheHighwaySong]

What the fuck, quit arguing about "what is art?" Can't people just draw really well because they're bored nowadays?

[Pelican Man]

What the fuck, quit arguing about "what is art?" Can't people just draw really well because they're bored nowadays?

I was just about to post this myself.

If you don't think this constitutes art, then how about you ignore that fact and look at how fucking brilliantly she's been drawing, even since 6 years old.

It's incredible, and here you retards are arguing semantics.

[Tweek]

Yeah but if all everyone does is marvel at how pretty it is, then there isn't much of a thread. It's discussion, sillies.

[OrdinaryCat]

docmartens, I really like that definition of art, but I'd be interested in hearing the other definitions. Granted, I'm an engineer so I haven't exactly been taking art classes, but I like to fancy myself decently well-cultured, and I'm still not convinced.

[Ingolf]

Omg she has skils... wait a minute she belives in god. i wish i did! Then i could have all those super painting powers and wierd thoughts about that i was born underwater etc.

[Pencil]

Omg she has skils... wait a minute she belives in god. i wish i did! Then i could have all those super painting powers and wierd thoughts about that i was born underwater etc.

Yeah, because these come in the same package as believing in God.

[OrdinaryCat]

Omg she has skils... wait a minute she belives in god. i wish i did! Then i could have all those super painting powers and wierd thoughts about that i was born underwater etc.

You could believe that you were born underwater? That's not just a belief, it's fact. She was born underwater. It's called a water birth. This is not to say that her mother was a mermaid or living in an undersea city. She was probably in a bathtub or another small tub of water.

[Casalen]

I prefer to think she's part mermaid.

Here's the thing about that definition of art, to back to that barely related topic... it's too subjective. Maybe I've never seen a picture before, and I actually do find her work challenging me to question the nature of existence. I just can't see a definition that can be so vague still be applied to something. The friend's definition mentioned doesn't work in an analytical way, since it includes the defined ('artist' being a derivative of 'art'). But maybe that's as close as we can get, and there's no way to agree; it might be better to say that the nature of art is variable with the artist and the viewer both, and that a definite decision can't actually be made. It may be better to ignore the pettiness of potential right and wrong in this discussion.

Which, since you were the one who originally made a claim, means I win.

[Ingolf]

Yeah, because these come in the same package as believing in God.
Ofcourse it does! All kinds of religions come with something. Like of youre jewish youre rich and greedy. If youre muslim it comes with no pork!

[Pencil]

Ofcourse it does! All kinds of religions come with something. Like of youre jewish youre rich and greedy. If youre muslim it comes with no pork!

With what religion comes your stupidity?

[SarahBellum666]

Wow, talk about child prodigy. That is fucking insane!! Shes so good! But I think someone mentioned that she was home schooled, had visions and was born underwater.

So child prodigy she may be, and a great artist as well... but too bad shes a freak!

I also don't trust anyone who says:

"I want my art to draw people's attention to God, and I want my poetry to keep people's attention to God"
-Akiane

For a prodigy- that's a pretty stupid thing to say.

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[OrdinaryCat]

SarahBellum. So nice of you to join the discussion. Perhaps read at least a few other responses before responding yourself?
And I'd just like to point out that although I don't believe in God, I find your statement about her quote being "a pretty stupid thing to say" prejudiced and uninformed. You just called Christianity stupid, with no further base to your argument. Fantastic.

P.S. I hate everything about your font.

[OrdinaryCat]

I prefer to think she's part mermaid.

I never said she was part mermaid! I'm pretty sure she is.

Which, since you were the one who originally made a claim, means I win.

Who? What?
But I agree.

[Jabo]

Fucking prodigies, they make me go jealous




.Correction: She is fucking hot to be 12, so she is an exeption.

[Hysteria__]

She's no stuffbyalex (http://www.geocities.com/stuffbyalex/CarsinGraphite.html), but she's alright. Any girl drawing fetuses before she's had her first period has my respect, even if she feels the need to mention God, Jesus, and various other fairy tale characters 10 times every sentence.

[OrdinaryCat]

She's no stuffbyalex (http://www.geocities.com/stuffbyalex/CarsinGraphite.html)

I disagree. He simply draws verbatim. There's no imagination.

[LeeJam]

Art is stupid, GTFO women and get in the kitchen

[daiso6992]

This girl is going to be known around the world if she doesn't go through the suckiness of teen years. If she does learn more ways of art, then she will be great.

And back off if she is a little weird. Everybody has their own ways and you people only judge her because you are not accustomed to her ways.

I absolutely loved "Tree of Life" but it's too expensive.

[slayer41]

When i first saw that I figured it was gonna be some shitty abstract shit. (See: My Kid Could Paint That) However, I am pleasantly surprised. She is a pretty fucking good artist. And she is hot.

[CnGy]

Is it just me or are the ones she made when she was six way more awesome.

[Sieda]

Wow. I am extremely impressed.

I can't wait to see when she ages a few years, and I hope she gets into post-modernism and moral relativism... things like that. I think her use of color could really bring out the despair in the world; make it look beautiful. :)

[docmartens]

She doesn't paint despair, I thought that was obvious when you could see everything revolved around Jesus or a landscape.

[Fantastic]

It sucks she's home schooled but is a jesus fuck.
It's a stereotype that gets to me.

[NOODLESMOVIE]

I liked the toddler who could finger paint ninja turtles better.

She is talented! Show some respect! >:(

[NOODLESMOVIE]

She is the frickin awsome artist! Amazing detail! The 'Infinate Eye's detail is a little off though

[hmn47]

Yeh, its impresive. Now if only she had a usefull talent. Shame she spends so much time on art instead of something usefull.

[hmn47]

With what religion comes your stupidity?

Scientoilgy. { If you want to count that as a real relgion }.

[Lag]

Yeh, its impresive. Now if only she had a usefull talent. Shame she spends so much time on art instead of something usefull.

I'm pretty sure she'll make more money doing her 'useless' talent than you ever will in your entire life.

[Dodger]

Yeh, its impresive. Now if only she had a usefull talent. Shame she spends so much time on art instead of something usefull.

She sells her prints at 450 dollars, at the cheapest.
Yeah, you're right. They're trash.

Maybe if you learned to spell and stopped trolling internet forums, you might find a useless talent as lucrative as hers.

[Sieda]

She doesn't paint despair, I thought that was obvious when you could see everything revolved around Jesus or a landscape.

Aye. I said I was hoping that she does when she grows up. I thought life was great at that age too.

[Fantastic]

Yeh, its impresive. Now if only she had a usefull talent. Shame she spends so much time on art instead of something usefull.

I hope you're serious, Because that's totally true.
Display crafts, ie artistic objects are one thing,
but sketches like her's are pretty much crap.
And to sell them for that much is ridiculous.

And she was born under water and experienced jesus o-o
Wtf man.

[Casalen]

And back off if she is a little weird. Everybody has their own ways and you people only judge her because you are not accustomed to her ways.

We also judge her because she's fucking weird.

Her later years will probably result in being totally disillusioned with life once she leaves her protective nest and sees the real world. I hope. Makes for much better art work and a realistic vision of things.

[Fantastic]

Wow, talk about child prodigy. That is fucking insane!! Shes so good! But I think someone mentioned that she was home schooled, had visions and was born underwater.

So child prodigy she may be, and a great artist as well... but too bad shes a freak!

I also don't trust anyone who says:

"I want my art to draw people's attention to God, and I want my poetry to keep people's attention to God"
-Akiane

For a prodigy- that's a pretty stupid thing to say.

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Take the homeschooled thing out.
Not everyone of them are jesus bopping douches.
(:

[CnGy]

450 is like nothing for a painting just fyi.

[Doa]

She was using pastels by six and she didn't eat them????

[Trashcat]

I could still beat her in a footrace.

[CnGy]

Not to sound insulting, but aside from the shit she did when she was young. It seems most of her work is illustrative rather than artistic.

[Vir]

I'm not sure what you mean by that, I went back and looked at them it seems her youngest works are shitty(only exceptional because of her age) and the pastels are pastels, landscapes that look cool but still not that special. Her younger stuff that are really good paintings though fairly simple. I think the most recent paintings are the really artistic ones because she seems to have something she's trying to express and attempting to do it through her art, whether it's a lone woman next to a candle or a barren sharp landscape.

I mightve completely misunderstood your post though since I'm not really familiar with art terms and not quite able to distinguish what you mean by illustrative over artistic?

[CnGy]

I take it back only because of Nerve Cell Growth. I missed that one before somehow.

She needs to do more of those.

And you're right. But the style itself, I like the landscapes she did when she was young. They have TONS of personality. She's reaching that state where everything just looks polished. It looks good, no doubt, but I want to see more nerve cell stuff, basically. She should push herself MORE.

[WiseOldTabbyCat]

As talented and strange as she is, I have doubt about her future uprising.

I have seen some amazing, top-of-the- game elitist artists over the years. All of them underground who noone has heard of, who display their work in local galleries and sell their prints on the internet to pay the rent.
The artists who get the real acknowledgment these days are those who set-up unmade beds and pickle sharks whole. There is no place anymore for talent like this.

[missseira]

Considers her style: Akianism - a universal blend of realism and imaginism

I considered my style at 12 a unique blend of stick-figurism & crayonism

[SirDarren]

"Original Color Sketches and Experimental Creations on Canvas $8000 to $16,000".

EDIT: "Originals $100,000 to $1,000,000"

Heh.


But yeah, personally I think it's fake.
Either to preach a 'God/Jesus' to everyone, or to PROFIT! (Her parents that probably is.)

Also the fact that I can't find any proof that she's actually doing them herself.
Except this small series of thumbnails (http://www.akiane.com/akiane_painting.htm)

And according to her website; she painted that painting in 40 hours.
Does that mean 40 hours of work or 40 hours straight?

Because the question I have is who changes their clothes that much in 40 hours?

Pictures 1-4: She's wearing the same thing.
Picture 5: She has different pants on.
Picture 8: She has a different top on.
Picture 9: She has different pants AND a different top on.
Picture 10: She has a different top on.
Picture 12: She has reverted back to the same top as in picture 9.
Picture 13: Same top as 7 and before.
Picture 16: Back to the top from 10 and 11.
Picture 18: Seems to be a different top altogether.
Picture 19: Completely new top again.
Picture 21: Completely new top AGAIN.
And the final picture: New top AGAIN! (Although this isn't as bad as it's a finished picture and she may have wanted to wear something better).

All that in 40 hours?

In the words of a great philosopher, "Pfft".

Cherry on the cake:
Her biggest wish:
"that everyone would love God and one another".

[OrdinaryCat]

And according to her website; she painted that painting in 40 hours.
Does that mean 40 hours of work or 40 hours straight?

Because the question I have is who changes their clothes that much in 40 hours?

40 hours total. She still has to go to school (homeschooled or not), sleep, eat, etc. Acutally, I think somewhere on the site she talks about her daily schedule. She gets up at 4 or some other obscene hour to start painting because she has to do school work.

[ssjgohan4life]

Wow, talk about child prodigy. That is fucking insane!! Shes so good! But I think someone mentioned that she was home schooled, had visions and was born underwater.

So child prodigy she may be, and a great artist as well... but too bad shes a freak!

I also don't trust anyone who says:"I want my art to draw people's attention to God, and I want my poetry to keep people's attention to God"
-Akiane

For a prodigy- that's a pretty stupid thing to say.



Its obvious, she says that because her family has stuffed religion down her throat and taught her that her talents must be a gift from god. Which is weird considering it said they weren't very religious until something happened when she was like 5.

Sorry for the religion bashing *stuffs inner atheist back inside cage* I just can't stand when people talk like that.

[GoldDigger]

As talented and strange as she is, I have doubt about her future uprising.

I have seen some amazing, top-of-the- game elitist artists over the years. All of them underground who noone has heard of, who display their work in local galleries and sell their prints on the internet to pay the rent.
The artists who get the real acknowledgment these days are those who set-up unmade beds and pickle sharks whole. There is no place anymore for talent like this.

I kinda agree; I don't see her turning into a big artist without the promotion of her parents. However, her parents have made a big deal of her talent (rightfully so, she's amazing), so it's quite possible. But I do not, under the circumstances, see her as becoming the next da Vinci (as I thought someone else said?). Da Vinci was a brilliant inventor and scientist, a "Renaissance man"--she just paints, and, in my opinion, not very imaginative stuff.

I do believe she has a lot of talent, but it's nothing I feel I haven't seen before, style-wise (some of the content is kiiiinda interesting). Honestly, her style is very generic and found in a lot of painters, which makes the work boring--this is what bugged me about how they said her style was "Akianism".

Also, I hate her poetry, I don't think it's interesting or thought-provoking in the least. At least her paintings are beautiful and amazing to imagine a 14-year-old (and younger) doing.

Also:
Its obvious, she says that because her family has stuffed religion down her throat and taught her that her talents must be a gift from god. Which is weird considering it said they weren't very religious until something happened when she was like 5.
If I read correctly, the family became religious following her "religious transformation" when she was 4. I hate people who stuff religion down your throat, too, but at least she honestly believes it and isn't just following what her parents tell her?

[OrdinaryCat]

I kinda agree; I don't see her turning into a big artist without the promotion of her parents. However, her parents have made a big deal of her talent (rightfully so, she's amazing), so it's quite possible. But I do not, under the circumstances, see her as becoming the next da Vinci (as I thought someone else said?). Da Vinci was a brilliant inventor and scientist, a "Renaissance man"--she just paints, and, in my opinion, not very imaginative stuff.

That was my first thought when I read someone posting about DaVinci. I don't know why people think of him as an artist first. I think being decades and more ahead of your time on complicated inventions is more impressive.

I do believe she has a lot of talent, but it's nothing I feel I haven't seen before, style-wise (some of the content is kiiiinda interesting). Honestly, her style is very generic and found in a lot of painters, which makes the work boring--this is what bugged me about how they said her style was "Akianism".

I think people aren't giving her enough credit. It's hard to be totally original, first of all, when most realistic styles have been explored, which is clearly her favored style. But, at 14 she's showing deep thought in her work? And by the passion she shows I can't see her ceasing to progress in the near future. I just hope that she doesn't stay close-minded.


Also, I hate her poetry, I don't think it's interesting or thought-provoking in the least. At least her paintings are beautiful and amazing to imagine a 14-year-old (and younger) doing.

Agreed. I definately don't think she has any future in poetry.

If I read correctly, the family became religious following her "religious transformation" when she was 4. I hate people who stuff religion down your throat, too, but at least she honestly believes it and isn't just following what her parents tell her?

I agree about the honestly believing part, but someone had to show her Christianity. As much as religious people would love to believe it, there's no way that she just came up with Christianity on her own.

[IAdrenalineI]

http://www.artakiane.com/vid-cnn-spiritualyoungartist.htm

I'm watchin some shit on Channel 4 right now and this girl came up who paints like really well. Her family are now millionaires. Check out the gallery (http://www.akiane.com/akiane_art.htm#). Spooky.
WOW! those are amazing paintings!! The girl who painted them too doesn't even look 12 years old.. wow.. i am blown away

[Sherbetcat]

I don't think anyone else has commented on this apsect, but I could be mistaken. Sorry if anyone has.
I was impressed, until I read the part about her life and that she basically has art lessons for about 5 hours everyday. Most likely this has happened since she started drawing.
To be honest, anyone that spent that amount of time practicing would be good. She has pretty much had the equivilent of five years in-depth art school, only with more freedom.

I reckon one day she'll just have a nervous breakdown and feel the need to do all the kid stuff she's missed out on. It'll make the news, seeing as she's into having visions about God and stuff.

[CnGy]

She's not going anywhere as long as she keeps painting in that generic fantasy style.

That's why I liked the stuff from when she was younger. A lot more personality.

[Xadeixis]

The whole Jesus stuff is bullshit. No where is the father's religion stated, and I doubt her mother was an atheist. The whole background story is fabricated to reel in money.

[Casalen]

I don't think anyone pointed out the lessons, I certainly didn't read it.

If that's the case, that she's had those for a long time, I feel more sorry for her than when I started. It would mean the work is done by her parents pressuring her rather than an innate drive to create, which is never as good.

[Drakos]

The whole Jesus stuff is bullshit. No where is the father's religion stated, and I doubt her mother was an atheist. The whole background story is fabricated to reel in money.

Yeah that's what i was going to mention. I don't actually think half the stuff on the website is true, but it's something that would definitely appeal to the christians out there and make them buy the paintings. I personally don't think of her as an artist but there's always controversy on the definition of art. Plus I also think that buying art for crazy amounts of money is just a phase that were part of. I don't think back then they would have gave a shit about what that girl drew.

[OrdinaryCat]

I don't think back then they would have gave a shit about what that girl drew.

"Back then"? What the hell does that mean?

[Wafflez]

Another prodigy to add to the list.

[Jordan_Hanrahan]

I don't think that really qualifies as 'art'. Sure she can draw paintings that look realistic but they're all really cheesy and shallow. Look at Picasso compared to a portrait painter; what makes art is not how 'nice' it looks. Like CnGy said, it's just that generic fantasy style. Go to deviant-art if you want that kind of junk.
When she's older (assuming she grows out of that style) and starts painting with a meaning, she still won't be recognized as an artist unless she has unique ideas.

[ssjgohan4life]

I like her stuff but reading the bible thumping descriptions for the paintings is a tad bit too much.

[Drakos]

"Back then"? What the hell does that mean?

Back then when people didnt give a shit about a girl drawing dolphins and retarded shit.

[Trilby]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrdRrAjpcDM

^ That was half believable until he held up the paper at the end and it was glossy haha.

As for Akiane, I love that she has such depth and maturity in the pieces at such a young age. Imagine the boundaries she will break when she gets older and weirder.

[aaron5555532]

is this a good comic?
http://ancomics.webs.com/comic2.htm

[BreakTheWalls]

Hey aaron>9000 you should advertise your shitty comic in every old thread available.

[White_Ninja]

I bet I can kick her ass at a stick figure drawing contest. No joke

[Mague92]

Those are gorgeous. Even as a child, she drew amazingly well

[CKY_BamFan]

I was suprised at age four. That was amazing. I can probably draw what she did at four, maybe worse.

[Astronaut]

Not trying to be negative deliberately but to me the whole extreme holy roller thing is incredibly off putting in someone so young. And while they say its her inspiration, its more than likely holding her back.

Tree of life, Quantum world are my faves.

[KaOzWomBaT]

Their pretty awesome, another child prodigy no doubt... Has anyone actually followed that link to the comics? i think i cried when the page loaded:drool:.

[laugh]

I think i saw her on 'Ripley's Believe It or Not!' Whereever I saw here, she said god inspired her to paint.

[Remote]

God inspires allot of wonderful works.

[Cakelord]

God's a huge fag.

[Casalen]

I have it opened in another tab, Wombat. Or I'm trying to, doesn't seem to be loading. Probably so insanely popular that the traffic is too high. I'd hate to see what it's like at a more reasonable hour.

[rynitooo]

Those paintings are absolutely amazing.

[Ocellatus]

Pfff, I've seen better.

[KateDorraine]

Wow those are amazing. I wish I could paint that good. Lol.

[Magnifisense]

http://www.artakiane.com/vid-cnn-spiritualyoungartist.htm

I'm watchin some shit on Channel 4 right now and this girl came up who paints like really well. Her family are now millionaires. Check out the gallery (http://www.akiane.com/akiane_art.htm#). Spooky.

The entire video would only load in stills, but I saw some of the pictures. They look pretty good.

I just don't get why her family would be millionaires, rather than just her.

[lazerwaffle]

is this a good comic?
http://ancomics.webs.com/comic2.htm
OMG ^-^
A NEW AARON5555532 COMIC
NO WAAAAI!