Do We REALLY Value the ART?

I love Fine Art, and have done since I was a teensy babbi.

(Which slightly confused my parents who were expecting a child rather than an art, music, and literature lover, but anyways…)

I’m not so much of a fan of Modern Art, though, ‘cos it tends to be either ugly or pretentious af — or sometimes both. Lol.

Graphic: author’s own, made with Canva

It’s unsurprising, then, that I love watching a show we have in the UK called ‘Fake or Fortune?’

- This is where newsreader Fiona Bruce (our newsreaders are multi-talented, clearly,) and an art expert try to figure out if an artwork — normally a painting — is by a particular artist, by someone else, or just a point-blank fake.

There’s a lot of detective work, and it’s all very interesting to watch etc. etc., but there’s also some stuff which majorly annoys me about it.

One thing in particular really irritates me, and it’s a problem with the art world in general rather than just this programme, but this programme most definitely highlights it.

Lemme explain: