Four-year-old Australian Aelita Andre is a talented little girl. Her abstract paintings, which are inspired by dinosaurs and the solar system, have sold to Italian art collectors for as much as $27,000.
She even has her own art show at the Agora Gallery in New York, and the critics are raving, comparing her with some of the world’s greatest painters like Jackson Pollock and Pablo Picasso.
The Agora Gallery’s owner, Angela Di Bello, says that Aelita’s “mind works in the way an established artist or an art critic’s would. She is highly intellectual. She just feels everything.”
As one does. When one is four.
Is there something that you believe you should be paid $27 000 to do? You may not be able to interpret dinosaurs the way Aelita does, but maybe there is something else that you are equally good at. Something that you believe you should be paid a LOT of money for.
Me? I’m no Picasso (I might have failed art in year 7, which I thought was impossible to do until I managed to do it) but what I lack in artistic finesse I make up with my organisational skills.
I think I should be paid $27,000 to organise birthday parties, wardrobes and diaries all over the world. I never met a storage system I didn’t like, and I would probably spend the rest of my life in Kikki K if it was allowed.
Over to you – what should you be paid $27,000 to do?
And here’s a gallery of Aelita’s works for you to flick through…
Top Comments
Remembering names. I once worked on a bulk recruitment round at a Government agency and I could remember well over 500 names and relevant details about them. My colleagues were amazed.
I am SO bad at remembering names. I'd pay you to follow me around and whisper people's names in my ear when I forget them!
If I had $27 000, I'd put on a beautiful concert for you to watch. Split the money between the performing artists, who range from Renaissance style up until present day on a variety of instruments.
As for the art, I really keen to have "Man in the scarf" on my wall. Although, an easier alternative would be to create something similar with friends and family, seeing as I have NO idea where I'd find that kind of cash!