The Histrionics of Forgery

I never knew I had hit the mark this precisely ;). Beltracchi together with the gallery owner who represents him actually worked out a label for his painting calling it "Free Method Painting" - the allusion is intended. Apart from the "Free" I absolutely agree.

That there might be a totally different attitude to forgery and one that I perceive as less damaging in lots of ways, can be seen here.



Maybe there is even a noble element in it. At least Tom Keating does not despise the artists he is copying, quite to the contrary.