Your child can't draw

The Times' Arts Editor, Alex O'Connell, wrote a highly entertaining feature for T2 yesterday about Dan Crowe, former editor of the now-defunct literary magazine Zem-bla, who has set up a company, Kinbote’s Bespoke Art Commentary Service, which passes critical comments on the artistic works of children.

Apparently, parents e-mail him a j-peg of their child’s art work, the child answers a series of questions (What is the painting of? What are her aspirations? What does she like to do?) and Crowe returns a mini-essay that compliments and complements the picture. The daubings of Alex's own three-year-old daughter were deemed “highly sophisticated” and "rather Fauvist", and Snakes & Ladders would agree entirely.

But not everyone is so generous towards kiddie art. Here's someone who has been driven to distraction by pictures displayed by proud parents in offices. The site isn't brand new, but great art criticism, like great art, never dates. (Warning: the page contains strong language - don't click through if you're easily offended, or if you have an aversion to bright colours and scrawling...)