Quiz about real versus fake

[Guest]

Try these great quizes to see if you can detect "real art" or "fake art". I scored 70% in the Poe/Riley quiz and 70% for the "true art/fake art" quiz. It's fun!! And there are quite a few different quizes.

http://reverent.org/quizzes.html

[Pabmusic]

Wonderful!

I suspect you never knew of Fyfe Robertson there in NZ. He was a Scottish journalist and TV presenter, who died in 1987, aged (seemingly) 300 years and a bit. He had a term for what he called 'Phoney Art' - Phart. It's best said in a heavy Edinburgh accent, with a rolling R.

So apt.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Last two wrong

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I did better on the "Famous or Unknown" and "Vermeer or Meergeren" - but still got one wrong in each. I'm hovering over "Mozart or Salieri": I think I'll do well, but just supposing ...

[MrGongGong]

Surely they are all "real" art in that they are all art ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Surely they are all "real" art in that they are all art ?

[jean]

Surely they are all "real" art in that they are all art ?

Not if they were created with the specific intention that they should not be.

I only got 67% on the abstract art - but I only misdiagnosed one of the masterpieces, and rubbish paintings I got wrong I was giving the benefit of the doubt to (honest).

[Serial_Apologist]

Not if they were created with the specific intention that they should not be.

I don't think the Dadaists would have agreed with you there, jean.

[teamsaint]

I got 75% on the abstract art, which I was pretty pleased with.

But I put the Rothko as a fake, as the colours on the screen looked too grainy.

Interesting exercise.

thes is an interesting section in a David Lodge novel about a piece of blank A4 paper in a frame at an art exhibition, and the requirement, possibly, for explanation.

[Beef Oven!]

Great fun! I got 75%. I'm going to do it again, to see if I can improve my score.

[MrGongGong]

I got 75% on the abstract art, which I was pretty pleased with.

But I put the Rothko as a fake, as the colours on the screen looked too grainy.

Interesting exercise.

thes is an interesting section in a David Lodge novel about a piece of blank A4 paper in a frame at an art exhibition, and the requirement, possibly, for explanation.

"A canvas is never empty"

[MrGongGong]

Not if they were created with the specific intention that they should not be.

Because they are made as art then they are "real" art IMV
I can't write a string quartet and then say it's not a "real" string quartet because I intended to make my audience think it was by someone else

[jean]

Because they are made as art then they are "real" art IMV

They weren't 'made as art', though.

I can't write a string quartet and then say it's not a "real" string quartet...

You couldn't claim that it wasn't a 'real' string quartet perhaps, but someone might claim it wasn't 'real' music.

...because I intended to make my audience think it was by someone else

The 'fake' abstract paintings in the first quiz aren't 'fakes' in that sense.

[MrGongGong]

They weren't 'made as art', though.

I think they were

I would regard the act that took place (and it's intention) as art

Whether someone claims something not to be "real" music is neither here nor there.

It's all contextual innit

(shall we have the wind machine and Pines of Rome again ?)

[Flosshilde]

I did rather better on the Vermeer/Meegeren than on the abstract art (90% & 58%). I read once, in connection with Meegeren, that it's well-nigh impossible for a faker to make the faces look authentic - they tend to have a look of the period they are painted in.