FAKE ART
The art world is flooded with forgeries, it has been estimated that only about
half of the 600 works supposedly painted by Rembrandt are genuine. No great artist,
past or present, has been safe from having his or her work copied by a counterfeiter,
and some of the fakes have been so deceptive that only experts have been able to
discover them. The number of fake paintings hanging in the world's museums will
probably never be known because the museums fear for their reputations if it is
learnt that they harbour counterfeit "masterpieces". Many museum curators now will
accept a painting only after the most careful analysis and testing of its authenticity.
The falsifying of paintings and sculpture has been occurring since ancient times.
Occasionally people have knowingly purchased copies of art. Wealthy Romans, for
instance, demanded and received copies of famous Greek statues. But in the 20th
century, the market for fake art sold as being authentic has become very profitable,
since artworks are now bought as investments for private collections.
EXERCISE 1: Find words or phrases In the passage which mean the same as:
COLUMN A COLUMN B
a) arrive or occur in large quantities
b) a copy of a document, banknote, painting, etc.,
made in order to deceive people
c) according to what is generally thought, but not
known for certain
d) real; truly what it is said to be
e) a person who deliberately makes something
exactly like something else, in order to deceive
f) misleading; with the quality to trick people
g) the opinion that people in general have about
what someone or something is like
h) house in one's property, especially people or
things wanted by the police
i) a very great work of an artist, sculptor, author,
etc.
j) a person in charge of the objects or works of
art in a museum or art gallery
k) truly being what a person or thing is reported to
be
I) a thing that is worth buying because it will be
more valuable and thus profitable
Dostları ilə paylaş: