Little Picasso, 10 Year Old Art Prodigy, Andres Valencia

Strongly influenced by George Condo, Picasso, and Cubism, Valencia combines vivid colors and clever fragmented facial compositions to create large-scale, dramatic, vibrant figurative paintings that convey complex narratives (Forbes) Prolific and prodigious, Valencia paints daily from his home studio, where he also studies art history, watches videos about painting, and sculpts, developing an interest in a diverse range of artists such as Gerhard Richter, Vincent van Gogh, Amedeo Modigliani, Francis Bacon, and Michelangelo. He’s also influenced by RETNA, Richard Hambleton, Raphael Mazzucco, Salvador Dalí, and other artists his father began collecting about eight years ago (Forbes). Teachers at his California public school Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) program quickly recognized his exceptional, precocious talent, and his parents immediately encouraged and nurtured his self expression (Forbes) source: