Authenticity Is In The Eye Of The Beholder A Jackson Pollock painting will cost a person a very good amount of fortune. In 2006, The New York Times reported that David Geffen sold Jackson Pollock’s “No. 5, 1948” painting to an anonymous buyer for a whopping $140 million. Jackson Pollock paintings cost that much and are valued so highly in the art world which is why they are very meticulous and cautious when authenticating newly discovered art works from the late artist. There are three factors to how art history experts determine if an artwork is authentic. They look for the artist’s distinct style to which they look closely and in detail the techniques applied in the painting and its provenance or its documented history. They also turn to
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He found a partial fingerprint on the back of the painting and matched it with another partial fingerprint from Pollock’s studio in East Hampton. Surely, that was a huge deciding factor to authenticate the painting for Teri Horton but the art experts didn’t accept it. It is common for people to assume that any fingerprint is a reliable deciding factor because of misconception from the media. However, there are cases around the world that made partial fingerprints very controversial because of mistaken identity. Partial fingerprints are usually small and noisy and it doesn’t contain enough fingerprint detail which makes it less reliable to be a single deciding factor. This was the only strong evidence that Teri Horton, Tod Volpe and Paul Biro have and there are still many factors to be …show more content…
This means that the painting itself lacked style and characteristic that defined Jackson Pollock in the art world, thus making the painting inauthentic. The documentary also failed to give a more in depth explanation of how art experts or connoisseurs go through the analytical process of art authentication. Paul Biro used forensic examinations like the partial fingerprint matching which is known to forensic experts to be faulty and unreliable. Forensic science can be very helpful in determining an authentic from a fake artwork. However, unless a DNA of an artist is found and matched, other forensic procedures is the same thing as an art connoisseurs decision of an authentic artwork. The only basis that art connoisseurs have is that they understand that art is about the artist’s distinct style. Its about what sets an artist apart from the others. Style is an artist’s
He found a partial fingerprint on the back of the painting and matched it with another partial fingerprint from Pollock’s studio in East Hampton. Surely, that was a huge deciding factor to authenticate the painting for Teri Horton but the art experts didn’t accept it. It is common for people to assume that any fingerprint is a reliable deciding factor because of misconception from the media. However, there are cases around the world that made partial fingerprints very controversial because of mistaken identity. Partial fingerprints are usually small and noisy and it doesn’t contain enough fingerprint detail which makes it less reliable to be a single deciding factor. This was the only strong evidence that Teri Horton, Tod Volpe and Paul Biro have and there are still many factors to be …show more content…
This means that the painting itself lacked style and characteristic that defined Jackson Pollock in the art world, thus making the painting inauthentic. The documentary also failed to give a more in depth explanation of how art experts or connoisseurs go through the analytical process of art authentication. Paul Biro used forensic examinations like the partial fingerprint matching which is known to forensic experts to be faulty and unreliable. Forensic science can be very helpful in determining an authentic from a fake artwork. However, unless a DNA of an artist is found and matched, other forensic procedures is the same thing as an art connoisseurs decision of an authentic artwork. The only basis that art connoisseurs have is that they understand that art is about the artist’s distinct style. Its about what sets an artist apart from the others. Style is an artist’s