[00:10.49]Who is the student's best critic?
[00:15.47]I am an art student and I paint a lot of pictures.
[00:20.95]Many people pretend that they understand modern art.
[00:25.82]They always tell you what a picture is 'about'.
[00:30.05]Of course, many pictures are not 'about' anything.
[00:34.80]They are just pretty patterns.
[00:37.61]We like them in the same way that we like pretty curtain material.
[00:43.68]I think that young children often appreciate modern pictures better than anyone else.
[00:51.51]They notice more.
[00:53.77]My sister is only seven,
[00:56.58]but she always tells me whether my pictures are good or not.
[01:02.17]She came into my room yesterday.
[01:05.44]'What are you doing?' she asked.
[01:08.86]'I'm hanging this picture on the wall,' I answered. 'It's a new one. Do you like it?'
[01:16.98]She looked at it critically for a moment.
[01:20.57]'It's all right,' she said, 'but isn't it upside down?'
[01:26.43]I looked at it again.
[01:28.47]She was right! It was!