Prominent contemporary artists including David Salle, Dustin Yellin and Ugo Rodinone, shared some of their earliest childhood works with T. Can you match the past with the present?
T Magazine
Can You Match These Artists With Their Childhood Works?
Memorialized on refrigerators, enshrined in albums and entombed in attics, childhood art offers a small window into our former selves. A ticklish, sometimes embarrassing trip down memory lane, these early works, of varying skill and vision, often feel prophetic — especially when it comes to those wide-eyed individuals who turn art-making into a career. While artists like John Baldessari and Richard Prince have gone to infamous lengths to obliterate their archives, others have retained these pieces as personal artifacts. In a new series for T, artists pair a piece of their past with the present.
Test your curatorial chops by correctly guessing which work each artist created as a child. Works can be guessed in any order.
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