Fake or Fortune

[Buggerallbandwidth]

Anglesey farmer and amateur art collector Hew Lewis on Fake or Fortune tonight.
Is this anyone we might know from on TFF ?
He certainly has an eye for a painting.

 

[Yale]

@Bald Rick

 

[Bald Rick]

Huwie Lewis? In the news?







Never heard of him

 

[Dry Rot]

If if's so difficult to tell a fake from the real thing, does it really matter?

 

[Gong Farmer]

If if's so difficult to tell a fake from the real thing, does it really matter?

I've often thought the same, anyone who can reproduce a masterpiece indistinguishable from the original, must be fairly talented themselves.

 

[Bald Rick]

I've often thought the same, anyone who can reproduce a masterpiece indistinguishable from the original, must be fairly talented themselves.

Remember that forger who was turning out indistinguishable "masterpieces" - paintings sculptures etc - from his garden shed? Mum & Dad flogged them to dealers for a fortune.... even though they were from "across the tracks"

Brilliant

 

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

When I’m prime minister, anyone who buys art work for huge fortunes will be arrested and made to work on a potato grading line for two years.

 

[neilo]

When I’m prime minister, anyone who buys art work for huge fortunes will be arrested and made to work on a potato grading line for two years.

I think there should be a harsher punishment is it’s ‘modern art’ or some of that daft abstract stuff that nobody would ever know if it was hung upside down.

Of course, I would expect an exemption if somebody was stupid enough to pay me a million quid for an unmade bed…

 

[BrianV]

I've often thought the same, anyone who can reproduce a masterpiece indistinguishable from the original, must be fairly talented themselves.

You mean someone like that great artist who's works sell for big money to art "experts" Trace Enim!

 

[Bald Rick]

You mean someone like that great artist who's works sell for big money to art "experts" Trace Enim!

You do know she has had serious health issues including the removal of her womb?

Anyway, it's all in the eye of the beholder.
I collect bits and pieces - often naked ladies - that one day may make my fortune

 

[Exfarmer]

I think there should be a harsher punishment is it’s ‘modern art’ or some of that daft abstract stuff that nobody would ever know if it was hung upside down.

Of course, I would expect an exemption if somebody was stupid enough to pay me a million quid for an unmade bed…

When I was a young man, i dated a young lady who was a budding artist and had actually had a work hung at the Tate in some competition.
She showed me a collection of her work, which was all modern art and meant very little to me but one piece I picked out and said that it rather appealed.
She replied that it was very strange as I had picked out the very piece which had won her the prize, and also had it upside down just as they had shown it in the Tate.
She was a bit too highbrow for me, or rather more likely I was a a bit too much of a bumpkin. Must not say too much as I think her sister is married to someone on here

Edited, it was not the Tate, but the RA

 

[Buggerallbandwidth]

You do know she has had serious health issues including the removal of her womb?

Anyway, it's all in the eye of the beholder.
I collect bits and pieces - often naked ladies - that one day may make my fortune

Hope you apply your "moderator" rules to those purchases !

 

[puppet]

Went to the Tate a few years ago and saw the Turner prize entries. One was a film of the artist walking slowly round tables knocking crockery onto the floor. Another a supermarket checkout with a tailors dummy and breakfast bowls with dried cornflakes and a candle or a small battery in them on the floor. Something about the emancipation of women.
In the gallery of abstract art I nearly tripped over some workmen's materials while looking at a poorly welded upsixe down bicycle frame. I then noticed that the small pile of insulating tape I stepped over had a large King Edward balanced on the top .
Final straw was an idiot ran past us up the huge main corridor at full speed then veered off down a side passage. The steward seemed unfazed as I thought he must have stolen something. Another 2 sprinted past before I reached the sign explaining this 'performance art'.
Of course the experts would say it was important as here I am talking about it.

 

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

^^^ Emperors new clothes !!

 

[PSQ]

The cleaners at Glasgow School of Art are apparently told - "if it's on the wall it's art, if it's on the floor it's rubbish".

 

[Widgetone]

If if's so difficult to tell a fake from the real thing, does it really matter?

It matters if you pay £50, and its now worth £50000

 

[neilo]

Went to the Tate a few years ago and saw the Turner prize entries. One was a film of the artist walking slowly round tables knocking crockery onto the floor. Another a supermarket checkout with a tailors dummy and breakfast bowls with dried cornflakes and a candle or a small battery in them on the floor. Something about the emancipation of women.
In the gallery of abstract art I nearly tripped over some workmen's materials while looking at a poorly welded upsixe down bicycle frame. I then noticed that the small pile of insulating tape I stepped over had a large King Edward balanced on the top .
Final straw was an idiot ran past us up the huge main corridor at full speed then veered off down a side passage. The steward seemed unfazed as I thought he must have stolen something. Another 2 sprinted past before I reached the sign explaining this 'performance art'.
Of course the experts would say it was important as here I am talking about it.

You have to wonder what kind of drugs are involved in the process sometimes.

 

[puppet]

All art, music and literature involves drugs.

Discuss.

 

[Dry Rot]

It matters if you pay £50, and its now worth £50000

I wouldn't have paid £50 in the first place. Can't lose what I never had!

 

[dowcow]

All art, music and literature involves drugs.

Discuss.

Not all... but most of the best does