Laurent, a 2 and a half-year-old painter, eagerly grabs the roller and rushes onto the canvas in front of him. Drops of paint fly around the room, speckling the walls and crashing to the floor. On the canvas, the material spreads out under his tiny palms. “He’s happy,” his mother Lisa smiles, as she watches from the attic of their family home in Bavaria, Germany.
Lisa has been witnessing this scene for weeks as her son has mastered the entire palette of painter’s gestures using acrylic tubes. Laurent’s works have already garnered more than 40,000 admirers on Instagram, and people are willing to pay thousands of euros to own one of his pieces. Dubbed a “painting genius” by Germany’s major popular daily “Bild,” and labeled “little Picasso” by The Times of London, Laurent has captured the attention of the art world.
Lisa confides that she is stunned by her son’s talent and wonders how he is able to create such beautiful works at such a young age. She quickly built a phenomenon around her son and is navigating the whirlwind of attention and interest surrounding him. It seems that Laurent has become a sensation in just a few weeks, leaving Lisa both proud and overwhelmed with pride for her little genius artist.
