{"id":81,"date":"2022-10-02T20:07:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T01:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/?p=81"},"modified":"2022-10-02T20:12:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T01:12:38","slug":"news-comment-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/2022\/10\/02\/news-comment-5\/","title":{"rendered":"News Comment #5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"little-picasso-at-just-10-years-old-makes-six-figures-for-paintings\">&#8220;Little Picasso&#8221; at Just 10 Years Old Makes Six Figures for Paintings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The fifth grader, Andres Valencias went from being unknown to an art phenomenon for his Surrealist-style paintings. Andres has received early-career recognition for his young artistic talents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June, Andres conducted a solo exhibition where 35 of his works were sold ranging from $50,000-$125,000.  His mother, Elsa Valencia accompanied him to this event. &#8221; My son is an artist but he is a kid first. &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Andres&#8217; parents work to teach him how to give back, as some of his sales are donated to the AIDS charity group and Children&#8217;s charity Box of Hope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andres began his career at 4 years old and earned the names &#8220;Little Picasso&#8221; and &#8220;Art Prodigy&#8221;. He started by selling water color paintings to his family for $20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon the news of his talent spread on social media and famous actors Sofia Vergara and Channing Tatum were the first t buy his fabulous pieces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-new-york-times wp-block-embed-the-new-york-times\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Six-Figure Artworks, by a Fifth Grader\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F09%2F26%2Fstyle%2Fandres-valencia-art-paintings.html#?secret=GqAlNYn7mr\" data-secret=\"GqAlNYn7mr\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Little Picasso&#8221; at Just 10 Years Old Makes Six Figures for Paintings The fifth grader, Andres Valencias went from being unknown to an art phenomenon for his Surrealist-style paintings. Andres has received early-career recognition for his young artistic talents. In June, Andres conducted a solo exhibition where 35 of his works were sold ranging from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bgo001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}