Assignment #5A
Create an art forgery. Select a famous painter (artist), someone whose work sells for millions of dollars. If you're not sure who such a person is, Google it. Then select 4 or 5 of his or her well-known paintings. Working in Pixlr, Sumo, Photoshop, etc., copy/cut and paste objects or parts of each of those well-known paintings to create a new composition (painting). Your "new" painting should not be able to be recognized as any one of the original paintings, but a new work made of the bits and pieces of the artist's known paintings. This is similar in a way to what art forgery artists do. They make paintings that look so much like the paintings of famous artists that they are thought to be "lost works" (paintings the artist made that the world did not know existed and were "discovered"). These artworks are often inspected by experts and usually found to be fakes. But sometimes these fakes are accepted by the world as genuine and sell for millions of dollars. It is estimated that as much as 10% of the art in museums around the world is counterfeit. This project is due by the end of school on Friday, October 23, 2020 Comments are closed.
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AuthorDaniel P. Loughran is an artist and art educator who lives in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Archives
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