Counterfeit Art Futurist Botha Osvaldo (Osvaldo Bot)
 

Italian police seized 5,000 counterfeit paintings
Italian police seized a group of swindlers five thousand fake paintings to be sold to private collections, reports agency Associated Press.
According to ANSA, in a criminal gang involved 70-year-old art of Piacenza, a collector and artist. In 2006 they organized an exhibition in Piacenza Italian futurist Botha Osvaldo (Osvaldo Bot). Organizers of the exhibition claimed that many of the artworks presented were not previously shown publicly.

Some time ago the police turned art critic Maurizio Skudero (Maurizio Scudiero), who stated that the sale appeared suspiciously large number of works Botha. Many paintings were sold in the United States.

During a half year-long investigation revealed that members of criminal groups bought at antique stores paper and copied it to the work of other artists, futurists, such as Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero. At the ready copy, they added a signature Botha. Experts also note that some criminals are copying the work applies to other currents of art, and presenting them as pictures Osvaldo Botha.

In addition to the forged paintings, criminals have written more than a hundred letters on behalf of Botha, addressed to the Italian aristocracy, with which the artist was not even familiar.

This leads us to think about what is art, or rather that today buy-art or something else ... to say that buying a name few, there is something wrong ... And do not get it so that the boom in investment in the art will turn something dishonorable - "Art is not cheap to offer - it already sounded. Haughtily turn away from the artists at the same time regretting that the public is turning away from those who are worth millions ... Everything repeats. Why has not anyone said that the artist does not have to "untwist" it is better to not be. Attachments should be in the very system of selling specific products. Well, at least in the lease of premises in the right place and sensible choice of artists. Then the audience she goes and buys. This is an illusion that you can "spin", now see such action, a pity that for ethical reasons can not express more ...

What kind of illusion, all trade is built on advertising, of course it been introduced and to the territory of art.

K-Maler, This is thought-provoking about what is art
And here is a fake - like an art. Not only that - wipe "connoisseurs," but also the money to punish them. I think not only profit driven by these people. But pride and great: D