Natural Art, False Expressions

<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the documentary <em>My Kid Could Paint That</em>, directed by Bar-Lev, which deals with Marla Olmstead, the child prodigy of painting, several interviews with persons in the art world are conducted, among them an artist who uses a magnifying glass and the thinnest brushes to do his work. This man, although happy for the success of the child&rsquo;s abstract paintings, saw in the whole spectacle a mockery of art, and stood firmly by her work. The girl&rsquo;s father, also an artist, was accused of plagiarism. Cameras entered the child&rsquo;s studio in order to prove that Marla was the real artist. Why should such relevance be given to authorship? What is the cause of the dispute between the expressive and the rational?<br /><br /></span>