Rodin Ripoff Car Boot Picasso Pod Mini MAIR31
05/21/19 • 16 min
In this podcast mini, We Talk of Rodin Ripoffs, Car Boot Picasso and Spirit Sculptures
Rodin Fakes
After 18 years a French court 2 art dealers were finally sentenced for dealing in fake Rodin Sculptures. The reason it took so long was that none of the sculptures were sold within French justification so that is why it took so long.
Gary Snell a US art dealer was sentenced to a one year suspended sentence for trying to sell counterfeit Rodin works. Snell had around 1700 fake Rodin sculptures cast in Vicenza Italy. They were put up for sale at around 40,000 euros ($45,000). That would have worked out to be about 68million euros ($76 million)
The Parisian art dealer Robert Crouzet was given a 4 month suspended sentence for selling Snell 16 of Rodin’s’ moulds including ones for the “The Thinker,” “The Kiss,” and “The Hand of God.”They were both ordered to pay damages of 500000 euro to the Musee Rodin
The Musee Rodin is the official body representing Rodin and controls the production of its works. Rodin, when he died, gave all of the rights and the contents of his studio to the French state. But The Original Rodin Foundry sold Snell some of its Rodin Moulds Snell made his versions from these. Snell’s lawyer had argued in court that they were out of copyright, they were not however marked as reproductions, some of them apparently had the Rodin signature on them.
Rodin’s The Thinker
Rodin’s The Kiss
Car Boot Picasso
Phillip Stapleton from Crawley. Saw the painting in car boot sale in West Sussex. Even though he thought it was a fake he still bought it for £230 He then took it to a Brighton Auction house and was told it could be authentic. It may be an early version of the surreal 1930 painting “Seated Bather” by Pablo Picasso It could be an early version of the seated bather
The Brighton and Hove auction room is fairly confident that it is real it has a signature on the back. There apparently is a message to Roland Penrose written on the back who lived in East Sussex and was friends with Picasso, who was known to gift his works. If the work is genuine it could be worth approximately £750,000
However David Henty a forger who lives in Brighton was reported as saying in the Telegraph newspaper that “it looks very familiar” suggesting that it could be one of his fake Picassos. An auction house spokesman Rosie may “He is a liar, he isn’t an honest person,” said Ms May, adding: “It would be a shame for Mr Stapleton if this devalues the artwork.” For a Picasso work to be accepted it must be authenticated by the Picasso estate for it to be accepted and it has no provenance as yet.
Ghost Statue
The Isle of Unst in Scotland is considering erecting a statue to a ghost. A local artist Eric Burgess-Ray has produced a hooded white model showing what the sculpture might look like, the council is currently considering the planning application. It based on a female ghost who haunts an isolated stretch of road and appears in cars driven by single men.
A local musician Steven Spence recalled his experience in the Shetland news. He was driving home on a dark night, he noticed out of the corner of his eye what he assumed was moonlight inside the van. “I thought at the time, ‘there’s no moon tonight’. When I looked around the White Wife was sitting in the seat next to me. She was transparent, grey and she smiled. I’ll never forget that smile.
“At the time it gee’d me a braa gluff, yes!” He had to look forward for a bend in the roa...
In this podcast mini, We Talk of Rodin Ripoffs, Car Boot Picasso and Spirit Sculptures
Rodin Fakes
After 18 years a French court 2 art dealers were finally sentenced for dealing in fake Rodin Sculptures. The reason it took so long was that none of the sculptures were sold within French justification so that is why it took so long.
Gary Snell a US art dealer was sentenced to a one year suspended sentence for trying to sell counterfeit Rodin works. Snell had around 1700 fake Rodin sculptures cast in Vicenza Italy. They were put up for sale at around 40,000 euros ($45,000). That would have worked out to be about 68million euros ($76 million)
The Parisian art dealer Robert Crouzet was given a 4 month suspended sentence for selling Snell 16 of Rodin’s’ moulds including ones for the “The Thinker,” “The Kiss,” and “The Hand of God.”They were both ordered to pay damages of 500000 euro to the Musee Rodin
The Musee Rodin is the official body representing Rodin and controls the production of its works. Rodin, when he died, gave all of the rights and the contents of his studio to the French state. But The Original Rodin Foundry sold Snell some of its Rodin Moulds Snell made his versions from these. Snell’s lawyer had argued in court that they were out of copyright, they were not however marked as reproductions, some of them apparently had the Rodin signature on them.
Rodin’s The Thinker
Rodin’s The Kiss
Car Boot Picasso
Phillip Stapleton from Crawley. Saw the painting in car boot sale in West Sussex. Even though he thought it was a fake he still bought it for £230 He then took it to a Brighton Auction house and was told it could be authentic. It may be an early version of the surreal 1930 painting “Seated Bather” by Pablo Picasso It could be an early version of the seated bather
The Brighton and Hove auction room is fairly confident that it is real it has a signature on the back. There apparently is a message to Roland Penrose written on the back who lived in East Sussex and was friends with Picasso, who was known to gift his works. If the work is genuine it could be worth approximately £750,000
However David Henty a forger who lives in Brighton was reported as saying in the Telegraph newspaper that “it looks very familiar” suggesting that it could be one of his fake Picassos. An auction house spokesman Rosie may “He is a liar, he isn’t an honest person,” said Ms May, adding: “It would be a shame for Mr Stapleton if this devalues the artwork.” For a Picasso work to be accepted it must be authenticated by the Picasso estate for it to be accepted and it has no provenance as yet.
Ghost Statue
The Isle of Unst in Scotland is considering erecting a statue to a ghost. A local artist Eric Burgess-Ray has produced a hooded white model showing what the sculpture might look like, the council is currently considering the planning application. It based on a female ghost who haunts an isolated stretch of road and appears in cars driven by single men.
A local musician Steven Spence recalled his experience in the Shetland news. He was driving home on a dark night, he noticed out of the corner of his eye what he assumed was moonlight inside the van. “I thought at the time, ‘there’s no moon tonight’. When I looked around the White Wife was sitting in the seat next to me. She was transparent, grey and she smiled. I’ll never forget that smile.
“At the time it gee’d me a braa gluff, yes!” He had to look forward for a bend in the roa...
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Madonna and Madonnas MAIR30
In this Episode, we look at art featuring Madonna (Mother of Jesus) and Madonna (Madge) the Pop Star!
The Virgin Mary is typically referred to as Madonna when she is depicted in images with the baby Jesus. Madonna in Italian means “My Lady”
Why is the Madonna Blue?
The Rich Ultramarine Blue as we talked about in our previous blue episode was expensive and rare, therefore was considered quite sacred. And for a long time was only used on the Virgin Mary
The shade of blue used on the virgin was to become called Marion Blue. Jesus, by contrast, is mostly depicted in red.
Why are Medieval Madonnas are so strange looking?
Cimabue – Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets- (ca. 1280-1290)
When you look at images of the Virgin Mary from the medieval period in history, Mary looks a bit odd. In this by the Italian Cimabue, She is depicted as being very long and out of proportion, surrounded by tiny angels, if Mary was to stand next to them, the Angels would only come up to the knee of Mary.
After the fall of Rome, Christianity and the church stepped in to fill the void. The Romans had plenty of beautiful statues the church at this time feared that this lead to people worshipping the actual physical object as opposed to worshipping the inner beauty. So Mary was painted strangely and out of proportion so that people would focus on the inner heavenly beauty.
Raphael Sanzio – The Sistine Madonna – 1512
The painting was commissioned in 1512 by Pope Julius for the San Sisto Church in Italy, it was in honor of his late uncle Pope Sixtus
The painting is of the Virgin Mary, she standing barefoot holding Jesus. In the background, you can just make out the faces of white faded cherubs.
To her left is saint Sixtus and to her write was Saint Barbara.
The most famous part of this painting is the two cherubs, at the bottom of the picture
Jean Fouquet – Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels – 1450-55
The image is part of The Melun Diptych which is a two-panel Devolution painting, The other panel is an image of Étienne Chevalier and his patron St Stephen
The Madonna is sitting on a throne held up by angels that are completely painted in deep red or blue.
Mary wears a crown and in contrast to the angels, she is extremely pale as is the pale ginger baby Jesus. What is unusual about this picture is she exposing her extremely strange spherical breast with virtually no nipple, it seems that the baby Jesus is not in the least bit interested in this.
The image is quite interesting because it is also supposed to be a portrait of Agnes Sorel, the influential mistress of the French king Charles VII... she was invaluable to him and died during childbirth. Agnes Sorel was well known in court for wearing very revealing dresses sometimes exposing her breast.
At the time, many would have considered it blasphemous to cast a deceased royal mistress as the Virgin Mary.
Max Ernst – The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before Three Witnesses: André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the Painter – 1926
This features a more earthly Virgin Mary, who looks be at her wits end with a naughty Jesus who is about 6- 7 years old and is laying across her lap naked and face down. His halo has fallen off and is laying on the ground. His buttocks are red from the beating. Mary is dressed in a tight red dress top and has a blue shawl draped over her knees. On the left of the painting... The surrealist and former dadaist Andre Breton, Paul Eluard are looking on through a small window. The whole image is very surreal and dreamlike... This is quite a challenging image, Mary still has her halo so still has her holy status. Jesus was apparently perfect and without sin but in this without his halo, he is more earthly.
Damien Hirst – The Virgin Mother – 2005
The Virgin Mother is a Bronze partially painted sculpture in the similar strong colours of a medical model. It is of a naked pregnant woman with cut-away views of her innards including skull, muscles, skull, and fetus. It is based on a child’s educational toy of the kind where you can remove the organs. This work for is about the fragility and mystery of human ...
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Amazing inflatables & Filthy Luker MAIR32
In this Episode, we have an interview with the co-creator of amazing inflatable works, Filthy Luker.
Filthy Luker is a Bristol Based Mixed Media Artist. Working in collaboration with the artist Pedro Estrellas, became known for Urban installations. Their works provide viewers with a new way to engage with the Urban Landscape, such as giving trees personality by placing large inflatable googly eyes on them or making a building appear as if a giant octopus is trapped inside by strategically placing inflatable tentacles on them.
In the 1990s after sharing the same studio space as the British Artist Pedro Estrellas they began to collaborate and eventually formed the company Designs in the air
Inflatable tentacles
Inflatable Eyes
Fish installation
If you want to find out more about Filthy Luker and Designs in the Air the links are below...
The Website for Designs in the Air
Space Invaders Art Attack
Amazing Cover artwork contrasted with computer graphics.
As part of a 2012 Red Stripe art project Filthy Luker in conjunction with the digital programmer Junior Hacksaw they created a 17m high Space Invaders Machine. It was on the side of Manchester’s Town Hall. A large interactive artwork, and was made from traffic cones and plastic portable safety barriers. It was lit up a night and the public could make it shoot the aliens.
You can see the installation of the space invader work in this video below
Musii (Multi Interactive inflatable)
The website for the Musii
Video showing the Musii interactive
Musii
Musii is an interactive music system designed for developmental play and multi-sensory therapy. It is a white inflatable with three cones. Colours and sounds change depending on how the user interacts with it.
You can see it in use in the video below...
The Snake installation at Whitby Abby
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