How Atom Bombs Can Help Us Detect Art Forgery
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Published 2018-01-02
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Itās been estimated that 1 in 10 works of fine art are forged or misattributed. The truth is, no one really knows how much fake art is out there, because many art counterfeiters are so skilled that their paintings are almost indistinguishable from the real works. But even counterfeiters canāt beat physics! From atomic bomb remnants to ancient atoms, hereās some of the amazing ways that science can detect fake art.
SOURCES:
āThe Scientist and the Forger: Insights into the Scientific Detection of Forgery in Paintingsā by Jehane Ragai (2015)
Ragai, J. (2013). The Scientific Detection of Forgery in Paintings. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 157(2), 164-175
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All Comments (21)
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> Guy actually tries to pronounce Van Gogh properly > Crew miscorrects him to "Van Go" > why.jpg
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1) Invent time machine 2) Travel back in time 3) Make fakes then 4) Travel back to the future 5) ...?? 6) Profit
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His First attempt at Gough 's wasnt too far off from the actual name. Van "Go" is absolutely wrong.
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Your first pronunciation of Van Gogh was correct. Doctor Who told me so.
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Oh... I thought they just nuked the damn painting...
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Looks like it's time to start painting in space or on the moon to make fakes.
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This video reminds me of the bit from AmƩlie where she's trying to help her neighbor who lost her husband in an accident climbing Mont Blanc. The husband had written letters to the neighbor all throughout his expedition, so AmƩlie forged a lost letter from him. She snuck some of the real letters away, photocopied them, and pieced together a new letter. Then she photocopied that letter and soaked the paper in coffee and hung it to dry to make it look old.
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Hmm, maybe that Bob Ross painting I picked up at a garage sale isnāt what it seems. Guess I should send it to a physicist! Leave a comment and let me know how you liked this weekās video! And tell me how Van Gogh should really be pronounced
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I think it reaches a point where the forgery takes so much work to do that it might as well just be as valuable as the original XD
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I mean, sure, radioactive particles got into paint, making forgery nearly impossible to pull off, but wouldn't those same radioactive particles get into those famous paintings, making real paintings a tiny bit radioactive as well?
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The Canadian novelist Robertson Davies created a van Meegeren-like forger as a character in his 1985 novel What''s Bred in the Bone . One important scene in the novel involves the protagonist unmasking a forged Hubertus van Eyck painting because the forger mistakenly put a New-World monkey into a painting supposedly done before 1492.
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Not so sure about the emojis in the title...
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The new question is, how do we detect forgeries of post-1945 paintings?
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Dammit I thought I could nuke a museum and all the fakes would set on the top of the rubble.
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quality forgery is as much a fine art as art itself........& anyone with enough $ for a $10M painting sort of deserves.......never mind....... true fine art should be for any/all with an interest to appreciate.......openly displayed as opposed to collected/owned.
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I really do like videos related on both art and science. But this one I love it.
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god, I love these videos. they're somewhat in a goldilocks-zone for me. interesting and full of new knowledge, but not over-complicated. the videos themselves are released with pauses in between, not every day like over at scishow. not to long and not to short, just the right length for a snack in between.
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As long as a picture is beautiful and skillfully made, itās good enough for my purposes.
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I think your narrative gets better and better in time. Thanks you guys for making such informative and interesting videos
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Thank you, I love your channel. I am 9 years old and I was studying about the human body because I want to be a pediatrician when I grow up so I went and looked it up on YouTube and then I saw one of your videos, it was called Evolutionary Fails in the human body and I loved it , so thank you for everything!
