My Fake Picasso Went to Auction at $1.4 Million

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  • @VICE
    @VICE  ปีที่แล้ว +8

    WATCH NEXT: It was the story that outraged Middle England. 13 art students claimed they took a grant, spent it on holiday in Spain, and then had the audacity to call their escapade ‘art’.
    - th-cam.com/video/UZfz0DVqCtA/w-d-xo.html

  • @annjay2581
    @annjay2581 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8027

    "Sometimes I do a few Picassos before breakfast, they're not that difficult"
    The shaaade 💀💀💀

    • @scotsman6712
      @scotsman6712 3 ปีที่แล้ว +416

      if he can do these and sell for 5 thousand apiece, not claiming them as originals,not a bad mornings work

    • @heinuchung8680
      @heinuchung8680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I said the same lol

    • @TS-wv4tf
      @TS-wv4tf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      so, do you think a Chinese guy making Louis Vuitton fake is as remarkable a designer as Louis Vuitton designers?

    • @frogeater4098
      @frogeater4098 3 ปีที่แล้ว +246

      @@TS-wv4tf making a painting and having it look exactly like one of those is way harder than one of those conveyor belt jobs where one guy does one stitch and another does the other. There's actual skill involved in painting

    • @khangvinh4656
      @khangvinh4656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@TS-wv4tf no but it does shave a couple thousand of dollars from the price tag.

  • @vahgarimo9864
    @vahgarimo9864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2811

    Most chill criminals ever

    • @halolime117
      @halolime117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Professionals have standards

    • @Cheesblenders4all
      @Cheesblenders4all 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      theyre really just making paintings and selling them, you dont have to be "tough" to do that

    • @vahgarimo9864
      @vahgarimo9864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Cheesblenders4all ?.

    • @iwaitforher
      @iwaitforher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      stoners’

    • @josephpeeler5434
      @josephpeeler5434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lovable rogues who didn't do great harm.

  • @Joe-so6su
    @Joe-so6su 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2049

    That guy has a really good point about people wanting paintings and not prints. If they sold licensed reproductions instead of prints that would be cool. Although I can't imagine that doesn't already exist.

    • @ShanaLawson
      @ShanaLawson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      The people who own the originals don’t like reproductions as it “makes theirs less special” 🙄🤦‍♀️

    • @eveking6289
      @eveking6289 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      You can recreate any painting and I believe you can even sign the artists name, you can only get in trouble if you try and sell it as an original, you have to advertise it is your own painting 🙂

    • @graham1034
      @graham1034 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      There are "3d" prints now too that have the raised texture of the paint. Get close and you can still tell but it's getting better

    • @charliesolorzano8457
      @charliesolorzano8457 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ShanaLawson do u not agree ?

    • @ryleypalmer
      @ryleypalmer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@charliesolorzano8457 they mean the mega rich collectors who buy art want to be the only ones to own it

  • @preciousthing101
    @preciousthing101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2294

    I love this episode cause you can see that the painter purposely did a sloppy job, obviously he didn't want to give his best work. He was even shocked when she told him it went well. He was fully expecting to get the work caught as a bad fake.

    • @XiangYu94
      @XiangYu94 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      They’re so sly lol

    • @penono
      @penono 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      why would a person who creates fake gave away how he does fakes. and let alone let ot have tested lol

    • @OmegaF77
      @OmegaF77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@penono So he won' be arrested again?

    • @DeannaSt
      @DeannaSt ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@OmegaF77 He doesn’t have to be arrested unless he gets caught that he made a fake and he sold it and presented it as an original.
      Any artist can make a copy of any famous painting on earth and sell it legally for a lot of money to someone who wants to have a copy of a famous artwork; it’s not against the law if you tell the buyer it’s a copy; people will pay you more than average money if you copy well an extremely famous artwork.
      If it’s done so well that you have trouble telling the difference, you will always find a buyer for something that masterly done, even a copy.
      A masterly copy it’s far more valuable than a photographic print of the original.
      It’s common practice for artists to go into a museum to make copies; they will allow you to sit in front of a painting and copy it, it’s a common practice, has been done since the invention of the museum because that was the way students learned how to paint in the beginning; they went to the art gallery and copied a masterpiece, about 150 years ago the students could be assessed based on the similarity of the copy to the original.

    • @racerx1189
      @racerx1189 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree. She caught all the red flags instantly.

  • @DavidDiMuzio
    @DavidDiMuzio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4855

    I'd buy one of his paintings. As long as he doesn't lie or try to deceive anyone I think it's pretty cool what he does. It's like covering a song. ...but covering a painting.

    • @francogonz
      @francogonz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      YES

    • @pocketrocket6494
      @pocketrocket6494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I agree!

    • @tsvetomilivanov7618
      @tsvetomilivanov7618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Yeah, a bad cover though. If it was a good one, he would chang something to make it his own.

    • @Sierrito
      @Sierrito 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      @@tsvetomilivanov7618 shut up

    • @harijoel
      @harijoel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Romans actually used to do this. They didn't think copying art would make art less valuable and copied ancient Greek masterpieces for their own admiration.

  • @SlightlyDazed.
    @SlightlyDazed. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3734

    Lmao he's definitely not done his best to make a forgery, he wants it to look like that's the best he can do, he's not stupid. Also that's stuck up lady at the lab kinda pissed me off, I mean she's profiting of the genius of dead artists just as much as he is

    • @ca-ke9493
      @ca-ke9493 3 ปีที่แล้ว +374

      Tbf, we knew the result of the authentication already, there is no way that either the forger or the authentication place is gonna let the video go up if the forgery actually worked.

    • @wpzxtr833
      @wpzxtr833 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      also they planted the books at the car boot sale

    • @prorok21
      @prorok21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@wpzxtr833 yep all staged, usual Vice isn't it.

    • @1nvisible1
      @1nvisible1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      *@**12:16** "Is there any way that anyone could trick these machines?"*
      *Master forger isn't about to cough up the recipe for every pretty girl that winks at him.*
      *The answer is buy pre 1976 pigments at estate sales for a quid each*
      *Pay the rubbish man to bring them to you, etc.*

    • @TheyForcedMyHandLE
      @TheyForcedMyHandLE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      The lady didn't see stuck up at all to me

  • @joshuafehr301
    @joshuafehr301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2681

    Plot twist: He wants to make you think he can't pass the forgery test.

    • @djiunofficial4528
      @djiunofficial4528 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @JZ's Best Friend Hahaaa!

    • @karimixtape
      @karimixtape 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      plot twist: he works with the forensic team .

    • @prosaic.7944
      @prosaic.7944 3 ปีที่แล้ว +207

      Guy knows everything about Lowry and art lady thought he was dumb enough to use cadmium red instead of vermillion. He's definitely hiding his true level of forgery.

    • @joshuafehr301
      @joshuafehr301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@prosaic.7944 EXACTLY. A magician never tells his tricks. I think thats how it goes....

    • @merrymaurader2521
      @merrymaurader2521 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂😂🖼

  • @NickOats
    @NickOats 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2630

    Anyone else think the guy gave them a bad copy so he can hide his power level?

    • @David-lt9jw
      @David-lt9jw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +249

      Yeah the colour mistake is such a basic one

    • @hunteref.1276
      @hunteref.1276 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Exactly the same.

    • @icanwatchthevideos
      @icanwatchthevideos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +170

      It was all an elaborate misdirection, you see at the end that he paints in a vault behind a faux bookshelf! haha

    • @nathanielbryan9489
      @nathanielbryan9489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Over 9000

    • @sylvesterakaPogi
      @sylvesterakaPogi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      Exactly bro...and that Art lady thinks that she did a good job of finding it...

  • @prodr0xxthefirst267
    @prodr0xxthefirst267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +698

    The double standard from that forgery expert, making money off of someone else's genius? Isn't that what the art world does anyway? The artists family or descendants don't see a penny unless they're the ones who own the painting originally. I'm with the forger. If you wanna buy a painting, get it analysed, especially if you're spending a lot of money on it.

    • @DogNamedWatson
      @DogNamedWatson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ..."If you wanna buy a painting, get it analyzed." "The double standard of the forgety expert." Babe, you realize you just explained exactly why she has a job, right? She's not "profiting off of someone's genuis" she's profiting off of people who want originals. She's not making money off of anybody's name because she's not claiming to be one of these artists. Her job isn't about the "genius" of the painting, it's about the chemical analysis, colours used, and the age.

    • @HondoTrailside
      @HondoTrailside 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The art world, does not just make money off artists, they invent the artists. Most famously, the CIA pushed the whole modern art grift supporting not only artists for decades, but a lot of the institutions and media around them, even creating a bulk of the art magazines. Today it is more the ponzi scheme of the auction companies.

    • @raph2k01
      @raph2k01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@DogNamedWatson Old thread but the OG comment wasn't really commenting about how the forgery expert profits off the art world, but the comment she made that no one should be making money from someone else's art. It's an odd comment for her to make, the art world is already profiting millions off of someone else's genius, and the forger is simply playing their game.

    • @SaltNBattery
      @SaltNBattery 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I don't see anything wrong with this? The fine art market is such a joke and only really available to the upper upper 0.1%. Especially if no one ever finds out, like who's he hurting? The dead artist? The people who own the painting, got a painting that's "amazing" by their standards. If they do find out? Who care's if a billionaire gets ripped off?

  • @davidsvenstrup6688
    @davidsvenstrup6688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +500

    That dude just gave them a low level work so they wouldn't realize how good he actually is

  • @tring-aling-ahim-bahoo-lah6378
    @tring-aling-ahim-bahoo-lah6378 3 ปีที่แล้ว +723

    These guys LOOK like how I'd imagine art criminals to look.

    • @phantom4E2
      @phantom4E2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      they look like they made a the great pretender live action

    • @Hijihghvcj
      @Hijihghvcj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@phantom4E2 that’s exactly what I was thinking ! And this video reminds me of the moment where they scam the art guy

  • @MRSLAV
    @MRSLAV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4100

    These two should have a tv show

  • @MrMclanskey
    @MrMclanskey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3267

    this makes me want to buy fakes from these guys they seem so nice

    • @90sanime52
      @90sanime52 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Dude you got a like from vice how do you feel?

    • @trentdacherry
      @trentdacherry 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      it makes me wanna vomit art forgery so i can go to jail for painting

    • @jasonMB999
      @jasonMB999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      If this woman is vice's new host, vice has a new number 1 fan

    • @MrMclanskey
      @MrMclanskey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@90sanime52 pretty good lol

    • @josephpeeler5434
      @josephpeeler5434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am certain they will not mind selling you fakes.

  • @theshehzadshow
    @theshehzadshow ปีที่แล้ว +81

    The cut at 1:50 of him saying "I served some time..." to a board with "Serving Thyme" written on it was amazing.

  • @The1stAssassins
    @The1stAssassins 3 ปีที่แล้ว +280

    I love how the one guy is like "I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole" and the other guy is like 'yeah, I do crime 😎'

  • @alexsaucedo4930
    @alexsaucedo4930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +926

    Something tells me, he could’ve done way better but refrained from doing so.

    • @DMWBN3
      @DMWBN3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      There are other videos on him on TH-cam. Interesting, even more so as a fellow Brightonian.... 🙂

    • @2sik_UK
      @2sik_UK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah probably and if not he's only gonna learn from his mistakes

    • @elisazouza
      @elisazouza 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DMWBN3 what videos?

    • @busterbiloxi3833
      @busterbiloxi3833 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He refrained from nothing. He had no talent and spent his time being a con-man. End of story.

    • @DanSwerdlove-wb5jl
      @DanSwerdlove-wb5jl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@busterbiloxi3833 no talent? You’d have to be pretty talented at painting to fool other professionals

  • @luismurillo9610
    @luismurillo9610 3 ปีที่แล้ว +598

    I sometimes forget about the insanity of the art market.

    • @bas8792
      @bas8792 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Basically they are just money laundering scheme

    • @Kaiyats
      @Kaiyats 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@bas8792 This is true it’s basically a way for them to keep large amounts of cash in an asset like gold

  • @PaulAllenVP
    @PaulAllenVP 3 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    He didn't want the painting to pass, total business move, keep the fed boys off his radar.

    • @dirkdiggler2379
      @dirkdiggler2379 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      lol its obvious he did a quick little painting.. His real ones are using paint from the era

  • @jagotiberan2181
    @jagotiberan2181 2 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    “I don’t care about the money; I love the art.” I honestly believe this guy. You can tell how much he’s into it when he wakes up EVERY day to do it

  • @dovechocolate8847
    @dovechocolate8847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    Lmfao this homie paints multiple, almost perfect Picasso replicas like he’s reading the newspaper. 💀💀

  • @SDALLE99
    @SDALLE99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4765

    “Is there anyway that anyone could trick this machine?”
    “...No.”
    Translation: Yes, but I’m not stupid enough to tell you on camera.

    • @Paco1337
      @Paco1337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      Well if you could get original colors from certain period in time ofc you could "trick" it

    • @YTT718
      @YTT718 3 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      You would probably need really old pre atomic bomb testing paint.New paint will have radioactive isotopes

    • @adriansmith7730
      @adriansmith7730 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Basically go ask archeologist if they have found any extra pigments you can borrow.

    • @stein1885
      @stein1885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      @@adriansmith7730 A Chemist would probably be better.

    • @JDMatthias
      @JDMatthias 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Yeah didn't Neil Caffery do a few fakes that passed machine inspection?

  • @SinewMinew
    @SinewMinew 3 ปีที่แล้ว +496

    Instead of spending an absurd amount of money IMO on a painting such as Balthus’s Thérèse Sur Uber Banquette that sold for $399 million USD IN 2019 at Christie’s auction house, for instance, why not hire a forger, like David above or John Myatt or Wolfgang Beltracchi to paint a master copy for a few thousand dollars instead? No laws would be broken, the artist gets to paint & make some money and the buyer gets their painting for a massive reduction in cost with no one being the wiser (mostly).
    Side Note: It is disgraceful and very sad to know how many artists died in poverty, feeling like unaccomplished, unrecognized failures for their life’s work & who were exploited then by the same dealers that continue to exploit them now in death.

    • @TempestPoet
      @TempestPoet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Because paintings in that price range are typically bought as investments, not to look at them.

    • @paddington1670
      @paddington1670 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      because then you couldnt launder 400 million dollars. duhhh

    • @plampard7813
      @plampard7813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@paddington1670 🙌 it was 18 or 19 million I believe. Still good money for launder.

    • @jazzypari
      @jazzypari 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      It wouldn't feel "exclusive" or "elusive" enough for rich folks I think. Also, money needs to be laundered

    • @SinewMinew
      @SinewMinew 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jazzypari Absolutely, I agree. If ppl have $1 million or $400 million to spend on a picture hanging on their wall, just imagine what their walls themselves cost. With that much money, they’d never display a fake painting knowingly or willingly, I’m sure. Like the Kardashians, who have billions of dollars combined, would never be caught wearing a knockoff Givenchy or Balmain, their favorite designers.

  • @jeffrey8154
    @jeffrey8154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    I really like how she interviews. She really makes it fun to see her interacting with them. I hope she does more.

    • @stephenr80
      @stephenr80 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Shes charming

  • @barbicoh
    @barbicoh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    I like how that art authentication lady felt so proud of herself proving a painting done in like an hour was fake. As if a forger would actually show his real skill while being documented.

  • @karwashblark7499
    @karwashblark7499 3 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    Did anyone else notice the restaurant right next to the prison called "Serving Thyme"? 1:50. Amazing.

    • @maddog4390
      @maddog4390 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Yes. They quite literally froze frame, showing the sign

    • @karwashblark7499
      @karwashblark7499 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@maddog4390 cool story bro

    • @forcesightknight
      @forcesightknight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I missed it, because I was reading comments.

    • @katekilgannon3567
      @katekilgannon3567 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@karwashblark7499 he's not wrong lol.

  • @dietsodas
    @dietsodas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2652

    this guy was making the custom air forces before it was cool

    • @dietsodas
      @dietsodas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      but wait id buy a cheaper picasso painting i dont care if its real, he should sell them as [1"1]

    • @dietsodas
      @dietsodas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Daniel Chang i didnt want to post another comment lol

    • @felixculpa9390
      @felixculpa9390 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Where you getting them colors...are you dyeing them?

    • @Auriflamme
      @Auriflamme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@dietsodas Copies of famous paintings are very cheap from China via Hong Kong. They have a whole town in China dedicated to producing them. Therefore there isn't much profit in selling legal fakes in the west. That room full of paintings was just to impress Vice. None of them would be sellable unless he is notorious enough that his fakes command a high price in their own right. For example, the time taken to paint a large Caravaggio and get it right would be wasted compared to painting a fake of a lesser known impressionist and selling it on Ebay, since nobody is going to believe that you found a Caravaggio in a car boot sale. While if you're selling it as a legal fake, it's a better time investment to do a Van Gogh/Picasso/Monet than an old master.
      In short if you want a cheap fake Picasso, there are dealers in Hong Kong for that.

    • @igethighhighhigh
      @igethighhighhigh 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Daniel Chang he’s too legendary for us fam ! 😂❤️

  • @AJpro88
    @AJpro88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +689

    they're not forgeries, they're just happy little accidents.

    • @zippymax1
      @zippymax1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Channeling Bob Ross, are we?
      Fraud!

    • @sivartb7273
      @sivartb7273 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Happy coincidences*

    • @KittyAdorer
      @KittyAdorer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@sivartb7273 hes not referencing Bob ross, hes referencing what his mom calls him

  • @inescasillas20
    @inescasillas20 3 ปีที่แล้ว +713

    This guy has an amazing talent. He should sell his fake paintings to art lovers! I’d rather buy one of his paintings than a wack print

    • @pixiebomb28
      @pixiebomb28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      i cant believe he can recreate them so flawlessly,id happily buy one

    • @AYellowPepper
      @AYellowPepper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Especially since prints of these paintings are just as expensive as his replicas

    • @broluxgigantos89
      @broluxgigantos89 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      would you pay $3K for a fake? lol...he is using a scam from the past against modern technology....it's like someone from the 80's trying to sell you vacuum cleaners door to door. You just laugh and close the door.

    • @neji-hyuga-
      @neji-hyuga- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or the overpriced originals

    • @plampard7813
      @plampard7813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@broluxgigantos89 Yes I would, if the original is going for millions, in other words unobtainable for 'normal' people.
      As said above, if I like something I would rather get the replica on which a very talented artist has spent hours, if not days on, than a plastic print of something which doesn't come close to the actual thing.
      Most of the times even for hundreds of dollars if talking big pieces.
      No thanks, i'll buy art, with actual paint, and if it is a fraud that's fine with me, i'll like it for the art. I'll gladly give someone 3k if he could have me a near perfect Rembrandt (for instance) within a day, or a few. Not to sell it on, just for the sake of having it on the wall.

  • @leonardog4529
    @leonardog4529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +229

    Funniest thing is: if they sold it as an authenticated replica anyone (I certainly would) buy it for a reasonably valuable price, because all the artistic craftsmanship is really there, this is not a lie and the man is actually a good artist.

    • @briannatr3876
      @briannatr3876 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He is not a good artist. He is a good painter whose skills are really good at specifically forgery

    • @fromthepeanutgallery1084
      @fromthepeanutgallery1084 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@briannatr3876 Wouldn't even say that. Some of those paintings are terrible. From 20 ft away they look alright. Close up, would never make the grade to a serious/experienced collector. These are aimed at novice collectors and new money idiots. Like the one that just won the Powerball. Ideal candidate.

  • @giftycustom5560
    @giftycustom5560 3 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    "Sometimes i do a few Picassos before breakfast, it's not that difficult"
    That line alone is enough to make Picasso rise from the grave

    • @mobilegameplaywalkthroughs990
      @mobilegameplaywalkthroughs990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Surely he was talking about the sketches and what not that Picasso is known to have produced in the 10's of thousands. Picasso's body of work numbers above 50,000 pieces across a career spanning something less than 80 years. 50,000 / 80 / 365 = an average of almost 2 pieces per day, every day. Picasso himself must have sometimes done a few Picassos before breakfast.

    • @sl4y8r76
      @sl4y8r76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      picasso is picasso because of his creative genius and not his painting capabilities, a lot of ppl draw and a lot of them draw very well but how many ppl are picasso

    • @HondoTrailside
      @HondoTrailside 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Picasso would be fine with it. Saying you can copy a Picasso, takes a Picasso to have existed in the first place.

    • @HondoTrailside
      @HondoTrailside 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      People forget that art is not difficult for artists. It is difficult to be an artist, but once you have gone through the training and development, it is a skill like any other. Difficulty is an obsession of amateurs. Of course coming up with great works of art is very difficult, but if you could get a great artist's cooperative attention, do you think it would be tough for them to repeat a painting, or a section of a painting. It shouldn't be.

    • @HondoTrailside
      @HondoTrailside 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sl4y8r76 He was a skilled artist, he could do what he needed to do, and was well trained. I think it is open to question how interesting his later work really is. He was part of a major movement in art, but then he just went on and on. If Michelangelo had had another lifetime, he would have created many more beautiful things. The breakthrough of modern art when it divorced itself from competence and realism was interesting, but I don't think it has proved durable. It is sorta like playing chopsticks. I get it, you are only using two finger. Very interesting, now could you play something using all 10 of them.

  • @saadeddyne3530
    @saadeddyne3530 3 ปีที่แล้ว +532

    they should make a movie about these guys.

    • @jayne59brohammer
      @jayne59brohammer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Please do, would be good.....love a good con artist story.

    • @mrsleakyshit
      @mrsleakyshit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Billy feels like a character out of a Guy Ritchie movie

    • @zefang4637
      @zefang4637 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      theres actually a documentary with a similar premise called "china's van goghs"

    • @tessarae9127
      @tessarae9127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah!!!

    • @tessarae9127
      @tessarae9127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I want the Hollywood version though not a documentary 😇

  • @rupertcaney
    @rupertcaney 3 ปีที่แล้ว +499

    This guy is so pure and it's the art world that is corrupt. Good on him

    • @xavierfranco5800
      @xavierfranco5800 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Either you use the system or the system uses you.

  • @BcnEggNChz_
    @BcnEggNChz_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +557

    Proves how dumb we are with how we value things.

    • @mariorossi9655
      @mariorossi9655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      The real value is irrelevant. 90% of art sales are money laundering schemes.

    • @triggamansa797
      @triggamansa797 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/95GVuZeX0MM/w-d-xo.html

    • @BcnEggNChz_
      @BcnEggNChz_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mario Rossi also very very true.
      Alot of rich ppl hide wealth in art .

    • @l.av.h7812
      @l.av.h7812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No, you don't get it, real historical and unique for their time art pieces are heavily and safely protected in museums that are made to have a vault that can protect the historical artefacts and art pieces in case of an emergency or nuclear fallout because their historical value is so big for humanity that they shouldn't get destroyed at all cost like for example Leonardo d'avinci's Mona Lisa which art style is still mysterious to this day for modern artist that it can't be replicated.

    • @ws8061
      @ws8061 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Art is merely a scheme by the rich to park money in tax havens

  • @chrisfromsouthaus2735
    @chrisfromsouthaus2735 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    To be fair, that lady near the end really wanted to downplay David. It would have been interesting to have her analyse a genuine painting, under the guise of it being one of David's, and see what the results would be.

    • @higaddrip2583
      @higaddrip2583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yeah but she’s not gonna tell everyone it’s hard to spot a fake she doesn’t want to encourage them lol

    • @leroyj62
      @leroyj62 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fine art is all about downplaying personal experience and skill as it increases the philosophy that it is what you own that determines your value which in the short term increased profit.

    • @subratadhar7698
      @subratadhar7698 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well she would have jeopardize her career had she appreciated his talent on camera

    • @Si74l0rd
      @Si74l0rd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I suspect it was far from David's best work, and I wouldn't be entirely surprised if she'd verified a painting or two of his without being aware. Clearly David wasn't trying to really pass off that particular painting, but some of the things he didn't do have been done by forgers since the 60's if not before, and there's no way he doesn't know all the little tricks, like how to age and crack oil paint.

  • @josephkass477
    @josephkass477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    “Is there any way anyone could trick these machines?”
    “No” - someone who doesn’t want people to know how to trick these machines

    • @doords
      @doords 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There is always going to be someone trying to outsmart the verification process and then they will always be new verification methods. This just how this industry works. I have a friend who has no other qualifications other than doing the art verification for life. He cant even keep up with the industry.

  • @ajooni6154
    @ajooni6154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +700

    I dont care what anybuddy says, these guys true artists 😂❤️ peace to them, this is awesome

    • @triggamansa797
      @triggamansa797 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/95GVuZeX0MM/w-d-xo.html

    • @castleenterprises23
      @castleenterprises23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Ive never seen anybody spelled like that

    • @vicentetrigo9476
      @vicentetrigo9476 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@castleenterprises23 lmaoo

    • @vicentetrigo9476
      @vicentetrigo9476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      dude "anybuddy"??

    • @laz5590
      @laz5590 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      My friend, of course he is a great artist , the point is, he selling his pictures as someone else creation ! The "selling" is the crime, not the painting

  • @tomasandrasko7324
    @tomasandrasko7324 3 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    These guys are in a way democratizing art and I think that's lovely

    • @buchipatadokoroff4809
      @buchipatadokoroff4809 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      it's truely beautiful ngl. smashing elitism one forgery at a time

  • @ATLTraveler
    @ATLTraveler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +321

    Dude no matter what that guy is a TREMENDOUS artist...

    • @triggamansa797
      @triggamansa797 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/95GVuZeX0MM/w-d-xo.html

    • @shsb2355
      @shsb2355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Painter*

  • @o00gourou00o
    @o00gourou00o 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    13:51 It would've been interesting to see what she would've answered to the forger's arguments : that some people do want a replica because they don't want a poster of it and there's nothing wrong with providing that, and that people selling the real artworks are also "profiting off someone else's genius", but without the work

    • @tonysuda9066
      @tonysuda9066 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      What about. A copy to hang because temporary maintenance on the real thing.. Which is needed
      However some museums wouldnt stoop they'll say they have standards but if tourists are coming to the museum. Money is money is all I'm.saying

    • @HondoTrailside
      @HondoTrailside 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tonysuda9066 It would have been good to have had a copy of the David when that nutjob decided to renovate it with a hammer.

    • @HondoTrailside
      @HondoTrailside 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      People should consider getting lesser known works of art in actual paint. The enjoyment of owning a painting is in the thing, but with the art business, a frankly ugly or ludicrous object can be made into a national treasure, this is partly because art has been separated from it's original purpose of covering up walls with something that is beautiful and meaningful to the owner.
      People should forget about a lot of this crap that only got funded because the CIA was fighting the cold war (US origin in that case). We were just told it was good. Get oneself some real art that one loves. Start with motel clowns if one is moved by them. But they have to be actually painted.

    • @HondoTrailside
      @HondoTrailside 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tonysuda9066 And fraud is fraud.

  • @knightartorias1825
    @knightartorias1825 3 ปีที่แล้ว +368

    "Art is worth millions because of the message, meaning, composition of the piece."
    Also artists:
    "Oh, it's not a GENUINE Picasso? This is worthless."

    • @miaomiaou_
      @miaomiaou_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      It’s not really artists saying that though, it’s dealers and art collectors, who are the people making the most money in the industry anyway.

  • @BadlyNamed
    @BadlyNamed 3 ปีที่แล้ว +572

    “Justification for profiting off of some one else’s genius” - a woman who is profiting off of other people’s genius.

    • @star_etraWrites
      @star_etraWrites 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      No. She is profiting from authenticating someone else's genius. Because the people who buy art are rich and want real art.

    • @prosaic.7944
      @prosaic.7944 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@star_etraWrites "real" art? Are you implying forgers are not making art?

    • @luisdelgado6248
      @luisdelgado6248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      She's a stuck up snob that could never paint like the forger can

    • @sonofben3322
      @sonofben3322 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@star_etraWrites if you need a professional exclusively trained to spot a forgery, then that it might as well be real

    • @utilitymonster8267
      @utilitymonster8267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@prosaic.7944 For most people art means originality and creativity. Copying other people's works simply isn't that.
      You may consider it art, but the value of most paintings isn't because people like the picture (if that were the case they would look up a Google image), it's because people want an original painting of a famous artist.

  • @andie728
    @andie728 3 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    This is very amusing as an art student. While many artists value the artist style that these master artists have created the foundation for - art dealers only care about the name attributed to the painting. Art and artists are a beautiful thing, but art dealers and the art market is ruthless and uneducated. These men are basically saying "screw you" to the market, which is hilarious.

    • @prorok21
      @prorok21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Remember whe he said that auction house actually worked in their favour because they profited from it? So from this point, a good forger is obviously a great way to inject more money into the market. Originals won't devalue, but overal market value bubbles up due to counterfeit influx. Two sides of the equation, one makes the money and other goes to prison and gets Vice interview 🙄

    • @crhu319
      @crhu319 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup. These three are doing it right. 🤣

  • @retired-s5h
    @retired-s5h 3 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    its really heartbreaking that billionaires and millionaires are being cheated out of their money, when they just want to live by paying lesser tax buying art and launder their hard earned money.

  • @yandiego96
    @yandiego96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    As an artist myself, going to on of the most prestigious art schools in the world (RISD) getting a BFA in painting and in debt til i die knowing most my work is just as good but wont ever amount to that kind of art market value... i think the biggest criminal act is those who have that kind of money profiting off of dead artists and trading horrid amounts of money between the rich when they should be patroning those alive today who have the skill. I say let him forge and get away with it. The world is cruel and he's just an artist doing what he loves and if u can make money that way then good on you.

    • @DarkisArt
      @DarkisArt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The millions paid for art is for money laundering.

    • @deleqtronica8733
      @deleqtronica8733 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Banksy is the only modern-artist that is profiting from his work while he’s still alive, can’t think of anyone else’s work that would fetch so much while the artist is still alive.

    • @EMMYK1916
      @EMMYK1916 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@deleqtronica8733 Basquiat is popular, Jack B Yeats

    • @OmegaF77
      @OmegaF77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@EMMYK1916 Well, Basquiat is dead.

    • @fuzzzone
      @fuzzzone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@OmegaF77 Basquiat is certainly dead and has been for a long time but he WAS very commercially successful during his lifetime. When he died, he was a multi-millionaire from his art.

  • @ivoivic2448
    @ivoivic2448 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    interesting how that forgery "specialist" is so confident in her assessment when she is told the image is a forgery. I'd like to see her act the same way when she's presented with a "forgery" she's told nothing about.

  • @zeusfist
    @zeusfist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +721

    "It's just justification for profiting off some one else's genius" -Lady who profits off verifying someone else's genius

    • @ca-ke9493
      @ca-ke9493 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Tbf she is representing her entire profession, which to be a guard against these forgeries. Dont hate the player, hate the game.

    • @constantsmile3370
      @constantsmile3370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      @@ca-ke9493 She's a guard against rich people getting duped and losing money on their investment. Because that's why they're buying the art.. as an investment.. They don't care about the genius that created it.
      I hate the player AND the game.

    • @1251mesi
      @1251mesi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@constantsmile3370 well said

    • @prorok21
      @prorok21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Her logic is impeccable😖😖. He's not profiting of anybody or anything else in that mater than simple human greed. Artist is dead longtime ago and has nothing to do with it and I bet he wouldn't give a damn about copyrights 200 y forward. She pissed me off.

    • @Juuk-D
      @Juuk-D 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      She doesn't even realize that forgers are the ones giving her a job

  • @litpapi9046
    @litpapi9046 3 ปีที่แล้ว +433

    He’s still an artist in the end and a great one too he should start making his own pieces and people will sell them for millions when he’s dead haha

    • @heraldeventsandfilms5970
      @heraldeventsandfilms5970 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's a grubby little crook and not one of this sort has anything to offer the arts.

    • @funtu4921
      @funtu4921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@heraldeventsandfilms5970 I’d say it’s the grubby little rich people that profit of dead people’s art work that have nothing to offer ay?

    • @heraldeventsandfilms5970
      @heraldeventsandfilms5970 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@funtu4921 Most artists are dead. All artists will die. You write like an ignorant see you NT. People like you don't matter.

    • @JustAGooseman
      @JustAGooseman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@heraldeventsandfilms5970 calm down you little nihilist. You probably lack all creative talent unlike the absolute unit that is David.

    • @heraldeventsandfilms5970
      @heraldeventsandfilms5970 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@l3k21 Ignorant see you NT.

  • @leiajiang7877
    @leiajiang7877 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    I have no respect for the capital market they are disrupting. Mad respect to these artist

  • @richardsmythe1085
    @richardsmythe1085 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Some forgeries here are stunning. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and if it looks lovely; it IS lovely. A painting doesn't need a name or signature to be appreciated as real art. PS. If you need a machine to tell you there's a forgery; why should anyone care? Share the style around. Lovely!

  • @Sanchez792
    @Sanchez792 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I feel Picasso was just trolling everyone towards the end of his life 😂

  • @caddyj1
    @caddyj1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Those Basquiats give me the chills just amazing pieces those two gentlemen are not dumb criminals by any means, so relatable and talented hats off to them. It just goes to show the arrogance of people who value art and the rich who have them on their walls it's sickening how some of those people are.

  • @spicysrirachamilkshake8167
    @spicysrirachamilkshake8167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +223

    Finally a good reporter that didn’t make me cringe the whole time.

    • @pedopeter4166
      @pedopeter4166 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Most of their reporters lately are cringe.

    • @goforbroke7598
      @goforbroke7598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I gotta say she is beautiful, she looks like Maeve Wiley from sex education

    • @mcfiou3207
      @mcfiou3207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@goforbroke7598 bro thought the same way the instance I saw her lmao

    • @starchild1198
      @starchild1198 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      She's sexy

    • @mattkaz9604
      @mattkaz9604 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      True. She's completely charming, Vice must have run short of ironic hipsters that day.

  • @Blaqk_8298
    @Blaqk_8298 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    3:34 "TO BE AN ARTIST YOU HAVE TO STEAL A SPACE ON A RICH MANS WALL."

  • @helloasroma
    @helloasroma 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I'll take "criminals that I don't hate" for 2000, Alex.

  • @vvvvv432
    @vvvvv432 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I really liked the point where her fake painting went to auction for 1.4 million - best part of the video for sure!

  • @ThePeoplesMayor
    @ThePeoplesMayor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    They still doin it on the low. The guy without the glasses is cheesing it hella hard when his friend is denying allegations of still forging paintings haha

    • @tessarae9127
      @tessarae9127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah lollll 😂 I don’t care, I say get that paper haha 😆

  • @KittyKatJoy
    @KittyKatJoy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    these guys are cleverly and skillfully undermining the elitist and pretentious "high" art scene, I could get behind that.

  • @1DerfulSniping
    @1DerfulSniping 3 ปีที่แล้ว +363

    the host could give margot robbie a run for her money

    • @mattdecker8724
      @mattdecker8724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      I know right, she’s so freaking gorgeous.

    • @-spudman2.054
      @-spudman2.054 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Not really, looks like she missed out on getting braces

    • @mattdecker8724
      @mattdecker8724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      @@-spudman2.054 All I smell is virginity

    • @mattdecker8724
      @mattdecker8724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@-spudman2.054 Says the guy anonymously putting down strangers appearance on the internet, yeah I’m definitely the creep here.

    • @elmersantana4903
      @elmersantana4903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Fight

  • @luhole
    @luhole 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    It takes so much talent to do what he does. It's a shame he's not recognised in his own right.

  • @joelluder8549
    @joelluder8549 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Somewhere I see Beltracchi mischievously laughing at the lady when she said theres no way to get a fake through

  • @KingExodusYAY
    @KingExodusYAY 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I mean he still probably makes bank just on being able to make good REPLICAS of those famous paintings.

  • @PhilipJasionowski
    @PhilipJasionowski 3 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    Art is crazy cause it really comes down to how much people THINK something is worth. Not how much it actually takes to produce etc etc

    • @852internationalconnect
      @852internationalconnect 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Same with stocks, sneakers, watches, Pokemon cards..everything rare and collectable piece has a value determined by how people value it

    • @ninjafruitchilled
      @ninjafruitchilled 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's how the value of anything works, including money itself. Anything is only worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

    • @EchoBravo370
      @EchoBravo370 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@852internationalconnect Not really. THINGS like watches and sneakers have raw materials and labor figured into the cost. A piece of art is just the canvas and the paints....and the sky is the limit.

    • @852internationalconnect
      @852internationalconnect 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EchoBravo370my comment was about perceived value not cost. A Rolex Date 42 just is worth around 1 k in material cost but is valued at 12 k. Ofc the real value is alrdy priced within thats how price calculation works but upcharges are ridicolous

    • @kharmastreams8319
      @kharmastreams8319 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pretty sure a lot of the value is inflated for tax exempts for the very rich 🙂
      It's pretty much a closed system controlled by all the people profiting from keeping the values artificially inflated imho 🙂

  • @margielamaan
    @margielamaan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    YOOOOO I KNOW HIM IRL, hes so sweet actually :)

    • @Bud4brains
      @Bud4brains 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I wanna buy a painting off him. Guys got skills

    • @nicoeeek.7181
      @nicoeeek.7181 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Bud4brains totally!!! Would love to get some of his stuff

    • @lindamaemullins5151
      @lindamaemullins5151 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cool 👍

    • @JG-vk1yj
      @JG-vk1yj 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      do you know where could we buy some little paintings?

  • @Alexandra_Wolf
    @Alexandra_Wolf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    People always say regarding art it’s easy to modern judge art, and say “it’s easy to say that, if it’s so easy why aren’t you doing it?” This man has the talent to make art, even replicates are difficult to do. Good for him. As long as he’s not cheating people currently. People should be putting art on their walls, not crap from homegoods and ikea. Collecting actual art is accumulating something of value. There are websites where you can hit on works that are affordable. It has increased my love for interior design and life in general.

  • @Greenman422
    @Greenman422 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Whoever owns a business that certificates genuine art pieces might want to hire one of these guys to teach em the ropes.

  • @jameschandler_
    @jameschandler_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Interviewer is hands down gorgeous

  • @emergencyexit3967
    @emergencyexit3967 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Secure the bag grandpa

  • @Vedantttt
    @Vedantttt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +373

    I don’t know if this is stupid or genius

    • @jordanabad5957
      @jordanabad5957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Genius in so many ways

    • @savblixky9797
      @savblixky9797 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      genius

    • @dixienormus6167
      @dixienormus6167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      As long as the buyer knows it's a replica I see no harm in it.

    • @CS-jp4ue
      @CS-jp4ue 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      People are stupid so it makes him seem like a genius.

    • @hunteref.1276
      @hunteref.1276 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      And what about if he faked the mistakes?

  • @psychokramberry8632
    @psychokramberry8632 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    These guys deserve a movie made about them

  • @quecksilber457
    @quecksilber457 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nobody would ever beat Wolfgang Beltracchi. Nobody. I just adore what he is and what he was doing. He went to be a multimillionaire by playing the art industry. And still he is an awesome family person, totally grounded with a giant heart. I believe there is a documentary that is not in German. For me he is the perfect example for a gentleman forger.

  • @lS-qp6zq
    @lS-qp6zq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    This VICE report: Genuine. ❣️

  • @azizkash286
    @azizkash286 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I hope vice's documentaries can stay at this level consistently

  • @ellegaitor2887
    @ellegaitor2887 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    Surely if they can paint to that standard they deserve to be known as artists in their own right.

    • @mattdecker8724
      @mattdecker8724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Of course they do, only pretentious art snobs would think otherwise.

    • @broluxgigantos89
      @broluxgigantos89 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      a copy machine is not art

    • @mattdecker8724
      @mattdecker8724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@broluxgigantos89 A copy machine can only make prints not paintings

    • @broluxgigantos89
      @broluxgigantos89 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mattdecker8724 A forger is a human copy machine, they do not create art...if you ...lets say state art is a form of expression by the artist

    • @mattdecker8724
      @mattdecker8724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@broluxgigantos89 That’s only your opinion, not an objective fact.

  • @SAMZIRRA
    @SAMZIRRA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Props to the woman doing the interviewing in this. She asked great questions! Loved this

  • @dionyzus2909
    @dionyzus2909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "What is your favourite thing about the art world?"
    "The money"
    hahahahahahahhaha that was amazing

  • @ayayron7776
    @ayayron7776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    *Finally you guys are back to some normal great content*

  • @SICresinwrks
    @SICresinwrks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I love Sydney, she seems like such an awesome person and She does great interviews.

  • @SunnyOnTheInside
    @SunnyOnTheInside 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Damn. I wish I could get the same kind of medical diagnostic care afforded these paintings.

  • @xieca
    @xieca 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "what's your favorite thing about the artwork?"
    "THE MONEY"
    🤣 i cracked up 🤭😂

  • @jmat04
    @jmat04 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    he’s so right about prints. i would definitely commission a forgery painting of my favorite artworks.

  • @openanielbrian6717
    @openanielbrian6717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    You need a lot of talking skills to do this scheme hahahah

  • @JamesBrown-oz5bl
    @JamesBrown-oz5bl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Might as well bleed them rich folks dry that are willing to pay stupid prices for a painting

    • @l.av.h7812
      @l.av.h7812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Real historical and unique for their time art pieces are heavily and safely protected in museums that are made to have a vault that can protect the historical artefacts and art pieces in case of an emergency or nuclear fallout because their historical value is so big for humanity that they shouldn't get destroyed at all cost like for example Leonardo d'avinci's Mona Lisa which art style is still mysterious to this day for modern artist that it can't be replicated.

    • @kronikinsomniak
      @kronikinsomniak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rich folks transfer money this way.

    • @Rockadela_
      @Rockadela_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@l.av.h7812 why did you feel the need to copy this comment over and over? It's not like it's a masterpiece

  • @Sometimes_Always
    @Sometimes_Always 3 ปีที่แล้ว +301

    I didn’t realize Margot Robbie worked for vice. This reporter is actually just as, if not more stunning.

    • @BeGlamourlicious
      @BeGlamourlicious 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I totally agree. 😃

    • @corruptedinc2621
      @corruptedinc2621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      She kinda a snack

    • @ramanshekhar9514
      @ramanshekhar9514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      She's really really pretty

    • @giorgiocartier9012
      @giorgiocartier9012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Simps

    • @sputtahsputtah6137
      @sputtahsputtah6137 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@giorgiocartier9012 Watch out. You're not allowed to comment on a woman's appearance or Giorgio will fly in to call you a simp.

  • @xavierfranco5800
    @xavierfranco5800 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I LOVE this girl's voice.

  • @boldtaa
    @boldtaa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Picasso has deceived the art market for decades with originals.

  • @DripBae-less
    @DripBae-less 3 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    Call me out if I'm wrong, but isn't the beauty of art in the eye of the beholder? Who cares if they are "fakes" if the person liked it, and valued it at the price they paid... That should be end of discussion.
    EDIT: I was called out, and proven wrong. Great points.

    • @gavinh.3880
      @gavinh.3880 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      funny cause the "artist" fucked you over and now they spent like 5 bucks and 5 to 10 mins to gain thousands and millions lol

    • @DripBae-less
      @DripBae-less 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@gavinh.3880 Fair point. I guess my follow up is, does the amount of money spent on art reflect how much it should be valued? When my son made me a birthday card, he couldn't have put more than a few dollars on crayons and paper. Yet I value it more than a comic I spent $50 on. You know what I'm saying?

    • @qwopiretyu
      @qwopiretyu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So I can use your youtube username to post whatever comments I want as long as I find them beautiful? Your Facebook profile too right?

    • @Joe-so6su
      @Joe-so6su 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      The point is that they aren't just buying it because it's beautiful. They are buying it because of the name behind it. It's like your sons birthday card. Most of it's worth comes to you because it was made by your son. What if he told you later that he didn't actually make it?

    • @DripBae-less
      @DripBae-less 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@qwopiretyu Hmmm, excellent point. I actually don't have much for that. Well said.

  • @trafficmonsoonacademy562
    @trafficmonsoonacademy562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    The real wealth is when he said,
    "when i go bed at night, i cant wait to get up in the morning."
    How many can say that?
    Watch : 9:57

  • @ravenwilson7979
    @ravenwilson7979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    The super rich ruin art by buying it for the sole purpose of investing. These guys are what art is all about: creativity and absurdity.

  • @iamalittleboat
    @iamalittleboat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Profiting off other people's genius is what the entire art industry is about. I think what he's doing is perfectly in line with that.

  • @rabuanmantine5137
    @rabuanmantine5137 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    These two guys proved that art auction houses and the so -called art experts are pure scams

  • @rescue9810
    @rescue9810 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Lmfao I love that story. I honestly think his forgery was a huge slap in the face to those instructors. Don’t they know inspiration comes from anywhere, especially from someone’s low points.

  • @battdamon4517
    @battdamon4517 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great episode and and great chemistry between the presenter and the chaps. Really enjoyed this.

  • @HarbindBrar
    @HarbindBrar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This was certainly educating and entertaining. I would love to see more from this series and this reporter!

  • @geoffjoffy
    @geoffjoffy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've always been fascinated by people with a huge talent to copy the greatest ever paintings. But to look at these guys, you'd never think they were the copy artists. Thanks for posting.

  • @stainedhands
    @stainedhands 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    the host and the two guys have so much chemistry together

  • @Rafi88
    @Rafi88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Scamming the scammers, keep up the great work gentlemen.

  • @foreleftyall
    @foreleftyall 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i’d love a series on art world shenanigans feat these three. would be so entertaining

  • @KevoMazziwa
    @KevoMazziwa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    The girl has the warmest laugh ever... You can tell she is a free spirit

  • @nobodyeverinhistory
    @nobodyeverinhistory 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "It's not crime if it's being recorded, it's an experiment." - Richard "Gigachad" Lightning