tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417961221792880115.post4284203421843221625..comments2024-03-28T10:37:38.851-11:00Comments on Intelliblog: ART SUNDAY & MOVIE MONDAY - THE FORGERIntellibloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262938291462934103noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417961221792880115.post-59827845663908636292016-05-02T19:13:59.407-11:002016-05-02T19:13:59.407-11:00Jonathon Keats wrote about famous art forgeries in...Jonathon Keats wrote about famous art forgeries in "Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age" (Oxford UP 2013). He noted that the Fauvism of Derain and Matisse, which portrayed the world in feverishly unrealistic colours, captured the disquieting intensity of everyday experience. Questioning, provoking, agitating, modern! Ditto feverish German Expressionist art.<br /><br />Art forgery provokes further anxiety! When the important galleries’ systems of authentication fail, the process calls into question the integrity of traditional lines of authority. Who can we trust? <br /><br />So even if good art forgeries provoke us to ask agitating questions about us and our world, we are on the losing side. The forgeries cannot be trusted of course, but now we doubt everything, even things that we used to have faith in.<br /><br />Thanks for the link<br />Have a look at "German Expressionist art - fakes!"<br />http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/german-expressionist-art-fakes.html<br /><br />HelsHelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.com