{"id":346,"date":"2010-07-17T19:58:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T01:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=346"},"modified":"2010-07-17T19:58:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T01:58:13","slug":"forgeries-artistic-and-eccesiastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/forgeries-artistic-and-eccesiastic-346.htm","title":{"rendered":"Forgeries Artistic and Eccesiastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">New Yorker <\/em>has a long piece on the complicated world of art forgeries, \u201cThe Mark of a Masterpiece.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In it the author, David Grann observes,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">When a forgery is exposed, people in the art world generally have the same reaction: how could anyone have been fooled by something so obviously phony, so artless? Few connoisseurs still think that Han van Meegeren\u2019s paintings look at all like Vermeers, or even have any artistic value. Gorgers usually succeed not because they are so talented but, rather, because they provide, at a moment in time, exactly what others desperately want to see. Conjurers as much as copyists, they fulfill a wish or a fantasy. And so the inconsistencies \u2013 crooked signatures, uncharacteristic brushstrokes \u2013 are ignored or explained away.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The art world parallels the religious world. What were people, including the pope, so desperate to see that they were taken in by such a transparent phony at Maciel?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-346\" data-postid=\"346\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-346 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker has a long piece on the complicated world of art forgeries, \u201cThe Mark of a Masterpiece.\u201d\u00a0 In it the author, David Grann observes, When a forgery is exposed, people in the art world generally have the same reaction: how could anyone have been fooled by something so obviously phony, so artless? Few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[400,399,1127],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maciel","tag-con-man","tag-forgery","tag-maciel","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}