Though he fancies himself an artist, all he was ever good at is impersonating something; and that people seem to go for this impersonation seems telling. The point where it turns into impertenance is where he like he often does, challenges the artists he faked by giving expression to the idea that he complemented their works by adding some of his ideas. Now play-acting is a wonderful art and I suppose he would be good at it, but an artist's oeuvre goes beyond a lot of things he would ever be capable of understanding. To the artist his work is reality and it the best cases it is a reality they worked pretty hard on and against a lot of odds.
Seeing the self-confidence and boltness Beltracchi still displays, it is no wonder that he was rewarded appropiately and got himself a show on the German, Austrian, Swiss tv channel 3Sat, where he portrays prominent people in classical styles, e. g. Christoph Waltz.
Some side note: Beltracchi grew up in my vicinity, the neighbouring town of Geilenkirchen ;).
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