I imagine this is not a new issue. However, perhaps you'll sustain my
question:
Does aesthetics (as opposed to business) have a perspective on fakes? I
consider three possiblities: 1) an artist purposely copies a valuable work
in hopes of making lots of $; 2) an artist purposely decides to paint like,
say, Andy Warhol, without copying a particular work; 3) an artist paints
his/her perception without any intention to copy a particular work or style.
My conclusion at the moment is that one might "like" a particular object.
One's "appreciation" of it might vary if one were informed that it was a
fake.
I assume that my case 3 above is somehow "better" than the first two cases.
I'm not clear why that should be so, without considering the work itself
(from an aesthetic, not business, perspective).
Geoff C
Or should I have written "lithographed' like Andy Warhol?
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Subject: Re: Benjamin and aura(Blavatsky)
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 15:57:34 EST
In a message dated 11/8/08 3:31:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> One is a painter of stupendous gifts -- in particular an engaging visual
> imagination so distinctively her own that it seems to me everything
she's
> ever
> done would only be produced by her.
>
I put that badly. A keen and focused "eye" might be ready to say
sincerely
of nearly any painting that "only this painter could have produced it".
Thus
are forgers detected.
A better idea of what I had in mind might be expressed this way. Not only
does her work delight, but it feels so original it doesn't even REMIND me
of
anyone. Obviously Stella learned from, and was once influenced by, earlier
artists, but wherever she "came from", she has cometed into a stylistic
"beyond" that
very few artists in any genre reach (while still remaining cherishable).
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