Great Works: Portrait of a Young Boy holding a Child’s Drawing (circa 1515), Giovanni Francesco Caroto (Independent)

February 25th, 2010 | by |

When Picasso went to a show of children's art, he remarked: "When I was their age I could draw like Raphael; but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them." He wasn't alone in this ambition. Primitivism was a big thing in modern art; along with tribesmen and the insane, good European children were a model of the primitive. Many 20th century artists tried to draw like kids: Kandinsky, Klee ...

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Great Works: Portrait of a Young Boy holding a Child's Drawing (circa 1515), Giovanni Francesco Caroto (Independent)

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