According to European police estimates, as much as half the art in circulation on the international markets may be forged. And a fair number of fakes go under the hammer in London auction rooms too, which is why Scotland Yard now has a specialist art and antiques unit. Art forgery has become so common that hardly a year goes by without a big story breaking of how the art experts have been Duped.
Duped They say, estimates of 50%? How the hell does something like this happen? Lets all go to our favorite auction house rooms in the near future, all over this MFA world of ours, flip a coin in the air and and take our chances. When commencing with our multimillion dollars or pounds bidding, our chances are a hell of a lot better than the lottery, just cost a lot more. What they say is we all have a 50% chance of getting something real for our easy to come by money. Now, after hearing this we all ask ourselves? Just how do these auction houses all over this world plan on staying in business, let alone these people who have been dupe in buying these toss ups? Just how are they going to get their return on their money? I was wondering why studies and new computer technical programing has just stopped and disappeared off the face of this earth?
These image analysis softwares talked about in the nuances of Van Gogh's paintings went up in smoke I guess. These technique to where small areas of the paintings were scanned and taken for individual analysis. These computer programs does really make perfect sense when wanting to know for sure you are getting something real for your money,.... you would think – the idea being to identify recurrent brush stroke patterns.
It makes perfect sense that these techniques cannot be reproduced by slow and meticulous copying hands from these people filling in there number paintings with their own texture and other features they see with their own eyes to create a mathematical model of the one they are copying. Now, in taking all of the great artist's style and techniques of this MFA worlds artists, ones used themselves to create their own masterpieces, I really think we could be talking maybe more than 50%,... what do you think?
All these poor copiers that these MFA experts are throwing all this blame on must have been busy little bees to copy that much art work in this vast period of time that they were producing all these supposed works of art. I really think it has been the MFA world and all these elite art investors who have been really duped.
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