Made You Look: A True Story of Fake Art Review: The Most Spectacular Art Forgery Ever? Made You Look: A True Story of Fake Art Review: The Most Spectacular Art Forgery Ever?
Barry Avrich s documentary captures how art forgery isn t just a scandal but the uncanniest of magic tricks.
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Director: Barry Avrich
With: Ann Freedman, Dr. Jack Flam, Pei-Shen Qian, Carter Ratcliff, M.H. Miller, José Carlos Bergantiños Díaz, Charles Schmerler, Patricia Cohen, Michael Shnayerson, Domenico De Sole, Eleanore De Sole, Ronald Spencer, Dr. Jeffrey Taylor.
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There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, hang in museums all over the world; there are more of them than anyone knows, all hiding in plain sight. When a case of forgery comes to light, it tends to be greeted with moral outrage. The act of imitating a famous artist’s work,
The Crazy Real-Life Story Of Andy Warhol Hulton Archive/Getty Images
By William J. Wright/Dec. 29, 2020 9:38 am EDT
Controversial and enigmatic, Andy Warhol was one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Arguably, there is no other artist who so embraced and reflected the zeitgeist of the modern era. Beginning his career as a commercial artist, Warhol instinctively and consciously blurred the lines between art and commerce as well as good taste and bad.
Transfiguring product logos and celebrity images into works that both commented on the banality of consumer culture and celebrated its uniquely American qualities, Andy Warhol, with his famous, screen-printed soup cans and garish movie star portraits, redefined fine art for a generation. Through his Factory studio, he even changed the artist s role in creation, employing assistants to manufacture his works on a virtual assembly line.