Hunter Biden has taken up art, the last refuge of the fallen and disgraced. Can he be successful? Presumably the answer is yes, he has the the proper necessaries to climb aboard. ‘from the artnet news -- Biden has no formal training as a painter and has yet to land gallery representation, but he plans on exhibiting his work in the future. Collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, a former board member of the Whitney Museum in New York City, said she believes Biden can have a successful career in the art world due to his prominent last name.’ Never once in the article did it mention his art or show a picture. Beth Rudin DeWoody probably hasn’t seen his work either and as a fact it isn’t for sure there is any, but that’s not the point.
Art at the top is all about the autograph and in news this week a consortium of big time dealers has landed a whopping seventy million deal on a Mark Rothko painting that almost any grad student could have made, and if they mounted it on a similar foundation and used the right paints Rothko himself couldn’t say it wasn’t his. Big time galleries make this same mistake all the time. ‘from a wikipedia article on the defunct Knoedler Gallery in NY -- between 1994 and 2011, under Freedman's direction, the gallery had sold faked paintings of works by Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, among others. read section four.’ I don’t feel sorry for the people with fakes, what’s the difference? They look the same. Isn’t the question really why is faking them so easy? How could a sign painter working in a garage get away with it, not faking just one painter but any of them, all of them?
In the movies art forgers are always going after Rembrandt and it sounds impressive but there was only one person in history who could really do it well and he died a few centuries back, and besides, all of his paintings were accounted for long ago. Much easier to imitate are the moderns because much of the actual work is done by ‘studio assistants’ anyway, and nobody bothers to count what goes out the door, just gimme money. Fakes abound but no one is particularly interested in finding out which they are since the value of a piece of cloth can drop tens of millions down to zero in an instant and who would even want to know that?
Smells like corruption and it just seems to follow Hunter around. If it’s time to seriously reform your life, change your last name to smith or jones and seriously try to paint. Don’t expect a free ride. Don’t expect Beth Rudin DeWoody to notice. Your social standing may drop, you might detect a smirk or two at family gatherings, and you better have a trust fund handy. It isn’t easy, it’s almost impossible to make a living as an artist without rich friends, without inside connections, or without some form of public support living on the dole. What’s needed is a public no longer blinded by the antics of the archbishops and saints of a phony religion laundering money and avoiding taxes while appearing all black tie pious and philanthropic. Actual art boils up out of the ground in troubled times, and art supplies are being sold everywhere. Surely someone has something to say besides remember my dad.
Art at the top is all about the autograph and in news this week a consortium of big time dealers has landed a whopping seventy million deal on a Mark Rothko painting that almost any grad student could have made, and if they mounted it on a similar foundation and used the right paints Rothko himself couldn’t say it wasn’t his. Big time galleries make this same mistake all the time. ‘from a wikipedia article on the defunct Knoedler Gallery in NY -- between 1994 and 2011, under Freedman's direction, the gallery had sold faked paintings of works by Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, among others. read section four.’ I don’t feel sorry for the people with fakes, what’s the difference? They look the same. Isn’t the question really why is faking them so easy? How could a sign painter working in a garage get away with it, not faking just one painter but any of them, all of them?
In the movies art forgers are always going after Rembrandt and it sounds impressive but there was only one person in history who could really do it well and he died a few centuries back, and besides, all of his paintings were accounted for long ago. Much easier to imitate are the moderns because much of the actual work is done by ‘studio assistants’ anyway, and nobody bothers to count what goes out the door, just gimme money. Fakes abound but no one is particularly interested in finding out which they are since the value of a piece of cloth can drop tens of millions down to zero in an instant and who would even want to know that?
Smells like corruption and it just seems to follow Hunter around. If it’s time to seriously reform your life, change your last name to smith or jones and seriously try to paint. Don’t expect a free ride. Don’t expect Beth Rudin DeWoody to notice. Your social standing may drop, you might detect a smirk or two at family gatherings, and you better have a trust fund handy. It isn’t easy, it’s almost impossible to make a living as an artist without rich friends, without inside connections, or without some form of public support living on the dole. What’s needed is a public no longer blinded by the antics of the archbishops and saints of a phony religion laundering money and avoiding taxes while appearing all black tie pious and philanthropic. Actual art boils up out of the ground in troubled times, and art supplies are being sold everywhere. Surely someone has something to say besides remember my dad.
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