The expert expressed a mixed opinion.
Jeffrey Taylor, University of Western Colorado and a specialist in the study of forgeries in art, and revealed the secret of how some of those fakes seem to be more valuable original works of artists.
According to the scientist, there are a number of examples of how various fakes and their authors were not less valuable and famous than the artists they imitated.
“Now I study painting Elmira where Hori is a very famous Hungarian master of fakes, who wrote a thousand copies of works of great artists and sold them to dozens of art galleries around the world. When his identity was disclosed, he became so well known that Orson Welles even made one of his last films in his career, “f for fake”, – said the expert.
Taylor explained that the master of fakes has written dozens of copies of paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and many other modernists of the early XX century, which was done so well that eventually he became a real celebrity.
“The most interesting that now his fake Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani go for tens of thousands of dollars at auction, and the irony lies in the fact that people today began to forge where Hori”, – quotes RIA of the word scientist.
“Son, where Hori is one of my closest friends, and he told me that he is often referred to potential buyers of paintings” the great schemer “from art to confirm whether or not a particular work at auction,” where the original Hori “, ” – shared the expert.
Two years ago, managed to find two such “fake fakes”, which were sold at an auction in New Zealand, and it immediately attracted media attention from around the world. And again, all this illustrates the idea that the main driving factor in this field of “art” is the money – said Taylor.
To the question, can the creators of the fakes use the same methods of chemistry and physics in order to create the perfect fake, a false entity which will not be possible to reveal, the expert replied: “it is With some caution we can say that it is not yet possible. On the other hand, in the next 100 years may appear fake, which we cannot distinguish from the original, but it will all depend on how much effort and money will be spent on the creation of a copy “.
As an example, he cites yet, ondoga famous forger of paintings of the XX century Eric Hebborn, who wrote a tutorial on how to make such fakes. He acted very cautiously and only worked in one area – worked paintings are drawn on plain paper.
Before you start to draw them, Hebborn visited all the bookshops and libraries in London and cut from old books blank pages when no it is not watched, and independently prepared the paint using the techniques used by artists and paint manufacturers of the nineteenth century.
“Then our work becomes very difficult to distinguish this fake from the original very difficult. On the other hand, if you use other materials, such as canvas and oil paints, the majority of counterfeiters will make mistakes, we will quickly find, ” assured the expert.
Taylor also commented on the recent discovery, which revealed that many of the classics of painting, such as Rembrandt, were able to use different optical instruments to create their paintings.
“In addition to Rembrandt today believe some of my colleagues, such tools could use more and Jan Vermeer, another well-known Dutch painter from the” Golden age. Almost perfect self-portraits and other paintings by these artists made many of us doubt that the master wrote these works on their own and have not used the camera obscura and other optical instruments, ” he says.
Taylor said that to a greater extent this question applies to more artists than scientists and artists and every beginner thinks about whether or not to use projectors, whether their use is “fair” from the point of view of art.
However, he indicates that in today’s world this question is considered not too important.
“There is a trend in painting called photorealism, whose representatives openly say that they use projectors in their work, but their work is still considered art. Moreover, Andy Warhol’s picture was printed through a silk stencil and call it a painting, and it is still considered art, and people are willing to pay a lot of money, ” he says.
Jeffrey Taylor is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of “criminal” in art history, works at the University of Western Colorado in Gunnison.
Several years ago he founded one of the first laboratories involved in scientific evaluation of authenticity of paintings and the study of methods for their restoration.
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