Authentication, ie the artists signature, that sponge attesting that is the artists; is sometime disavowed by our more risque artists. Andy Warhol has such a non-touch policy which sometimes disinclined him to put his signature on a canvas.
So it became normal practice for anyone who happened to be around to sign his (Andy’s) name on ‘Brillo Boxes’, ‘Marilyns’, various versions of the soup cans. )Oh look there is another soup can and another and another!
However the 'originality' of this is soon revealed as more jackdawing for this refusal to sign their work off was a common practise among the Surrealists.
This lack of originality is evident in Damien Hirst's dead sheep and Tracy Emin's 'Unmade Bed'
however, timing is all, and a sensations seeking media foist the 'originality' of these artists on
an unsuspecting public.
So it became normal practice for anyone who happened to be around to sign his (Andy’s) name on ‘Brillo Boxes’, ‘Marilyns’, various versions of the soup cans. )Oh look there is another soup can and another and another!
However the 'originality' of this is soon revealed as more jackdawing for this refusal to sign their work off was a common practise among the Surrealists.
This lack of originality is evident in Damien Hirst's dead sheep and Tracy Emin's 'Unmade Bed'
however, timing is all, and a sensations seeking media foist the 'originality' of these artists on
an unsuspecting public.
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