Art Lovers discussion

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Wow, he's a great forger! If he's that good at forging other's work and he's an artist himself anyway, why doesn't he just go on promoting his own work like other real artists?

Maybe he's not confident enough that he'd make enough money selling his own work? He makes a lot more forging all this other stuff? I mean, baseballs? Bats? Disney signatures plus art?

But, one question I had and you can probably answer it, Ruth. The geometric, linear art that he was replicating, wouldn't that be a lot easier to forge or duplicate than other art, like Kandinsky, or Braque, or Renaissance art, for example?

I would think so, Heather. And I was amazed that they said one painting was even done with acrylic paint. Forgers generally go to great lengths to get or create materials of the proper age.

Ruth wrote: "I would think so, Heather. And I was amazed that they said one painting was even done with acrylic paint. Forgers generally go to great lengths to get or create materials of the proper age."

But then they said he used a certain yellow that wasn't used in that age, and that gave him away. Did I read that correctly? I thought it was in the same sentence. Because they did say he used acrylic that was not of 1939 or the 1930's....

Ruth wrote: "I would think so, Heather. And I was amazed that they said one painting was even done with acrylic paint. Forgers generally go to great lengths to get or create materials of the proper age."

OH! I see what you're saying! You are actually agreeing with me. You are repeating that he used acrylic and that wasn't used during that time period of the painting. Nor that color yellow. Yes, that's interesting.