{"id":152177,"date":"2016-01-02T12:44:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T16:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=152177"},"modified":"2016-01-02T22:31:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T02:31:23","slug":"every-child-is-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/every-child-is-an-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Child Is An Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picasso claimed that it took him four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.\u00a0\u00a0He also maintained:\u00a0\u00a0<em>Every child is an artist.\u00a0\u00a0The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last year the Achievement Learning Centre, a school for children\u00a0<em>who learn differently<\/em>, asked me to paint a mural along their school wall.\u00a0 Regardless of my reservations about community murals (See sculpturestudiodominica.blogspot.com for 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0October 2015) I was willing to help.\u00a0 However, emergencies meant that, for my part, the project had to be postponed.<\/p>\n<p>Me stepping aside was the best thing that ever happened, because a few weeks ago the children themselves created the mural.\u00a0 And let me tell you, it is a hundred times better than anything I could have done!\u00a0 Red Mango Studios deserve credit for their role in directing the project.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just two of 14 paintings that make up the mural.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152178\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Roger-Burnett-642x395.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Burnett\" width=\"642\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Roger-Burnett-642x395.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Roger-Burnett-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Roger-Burnett.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Shallah is the six year old daughter of my model Jessica.\u00a0\u00a0Whereas I am dyslexic, Shallah is autistic.\u00a0\u00a0Hence, we both have similar\u00a0<em>abilities<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Well done children, I\u2019m proud of you\u2026and I\u2019m sure that Picasso would have been equally impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picasso claimed that it took him four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.\u00a0\u00a0He also maintained:\u00a0\u00a0Every child is an artist.\u00a0\u00a0The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.\u00a0 Last year the&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":152178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-human-interest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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