Posted on 09/11/2007 5:11:04 PM PDT by Lorianne
They're knock-offs. But knock-offs of priceless works of art, and the fickle world of fine art can't seem to decide where they belong.
Main hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Or leaky warehouse in Queens?
Hundreds of plaster replicas of Greek statues and Renaissance sculptures - made in the 1800s so American art students could see the great works without schlepping to Europe - have lived in climate-controlled glory and U-Haul hell as they've fallen in and out of fashion.
Six of the pieces moved yet again, this time to a Baltimore art studio, where they're getting the type of TLC lavished on the Sistine Chapel.
Credit the art world's current, almost Seinfeldian consensus: They're fake, and they're spectacular.
"It's kind of awesome to think, wow, someone copied this from the Parthenon hundreds of years ago," said David Kidd of Baltimore, lead conservator on a project to clean and restore the pieces for the New York-based Institute for Classical Architecture and Classical America.
That's impressive because you can't just slather wax or clay or plaster on the Parthenon anymore to make molds like the ones used to create the copies. The process stressed the originals, Kidd said.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
I just want a job like that guy has.
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Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.They're fake, and they're spectacular.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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