And there are social observers, like Clementine Hunter, whose childlike paintings of a tent revival, a wake and a wedding invoke the communal experience of religion.

Picasso was a conman - he would paint silly, childlike paintings and claim they had artistic merit, and foolish rich people would pay him a fortune for them.

The only color comes from the almost childlike paintings of fruit and trees that adorn one wall, and of course from the food.

The simple, pleasant dining room is decorated with light blue curtains and colorful, almost childlike paintings of Greek island scenes.

It was a childlike painting of sunflowers in a vase and the name of the artist eluded him.

Even Gunther Forg, whose paintings I have never much appreciated, was represented by a group of recent, colorful, artfully childlike paintings of grids.

And Lynn Rowe Reed's childlike acrylic paintings perfectly capture the mood of whimsical fantasy.

Often childlike, Russian paintings usually dealt with symbolic aspects of flight, rather than its actual technology.

But only two blocks north, also off Avenue D, is Mokotoff Galleries, a sleek space with abstract paintings, colorful and childlike, that are priced as high as $20,000.

The meditative music is composed by Sri Chimroy and the walls are covered in his almost childlike paintings.