Fine Art Registry™ News
Upcoming Documentary and Competition for Artists
New Documentary
Fine Art Registry has started work on a documentary, Authenticating Jackson Pollock or What Can Happen If you Don’t Tag and Register your Art.
It's a look at the current art world with regard to authentication, catalogues raisonnés, art history and so on. Visual art connoisseurs and art historians are unwilling to open their mouths and voice an expert opinion for fear of being sued. A whole organization, International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) was established to attempt to deal with this situation but it has not turned out to be the universal solution that was envisioned.
The result is that collectors and buyers are turning elsewhere for help with authenticating and/or attributing art which they have a question about.
Various forensic and scientific approaches have become more popular, some of them legitimate, some of them not.
It is a very confused scene in which very large sums of money and greed play a leading role.
Money and the general litigious state of affairs are driving the art world, more than truth, real knowledge, science and scholarship, all of which are taking a back seat.
The Role FAR Plays
Because Fine Art Registry has a mission of bringing some order to this world of art, people are coming to us for help. Their stories are illustrative of a much more serious and widespread situation.
We do have the ultimate solution which can end this vicious circle of complexity that has plagued the art world for ages. If contemporary artists worldwide tag and permanently register all of their work from the moment it is created, in years to come the problems that plague us today regarding authenticity, provenance, and authorship will be a thing of the past. Forgery and fakery will drop away as impractical and unrewarding.
Jackson Pollock, a Case in Point
The subject of the documentary we are making centers on the work of Jackson Pollock because there is much topical information and activity regarding his work which admirably illustrates the point and shows up the madness that exists in the art world presently. But it could apply to any artist and it is of real relevance to all living artists today who have any belief in their work being important and of value and having a potential of becoming well known and commanding high prices, even if at some distant future point. The artists of today are creating the cultural history of tomorrow.
The documentary will include informed and useful legal information; it will include the viewpoint and work of a top fingerprint expert and a materials specialist; it will include the stories of people who endured the rigors, agonies and financial burdens of the authentication process, believing they had come into possession of paintings that might have been by the hand of Jackson Pollock, to try to get to the truth.
Competition for Artists
As part of this documentary, we are going to feature five artists, FAR members only please (they can be newly joined, and the only requirement is that they have tagged and registered at least some of their art). We will choose the five best answers to the following questions:
- "How do you see the long term future of your own art?"
- "What role will the Fine Art Registry system of tagging and permanently registering your work play in that future?"
We accept answers in any of the following forms:
- A video clip of you telling us the answer
- An audio recording of you telling us the answer
- Your written answer.
We will post all video clips we receive which are relevant, whether they win or not. These videos will be posted on the FAR web site for public viewing and will be stored in the artist’s portfolio permanently for future historical reference at no cost. Everyone who submits a video clip answering the above questions will also receive a free one-year extension of their membership with FAR.
The best five entries will be chosen, regardless of format.
The winning artists will be announced on the FAR web site and in the newsletter and will be featured on the Fine Art Registry documentary which will give them excellent exposure. The winning artists will also receive five free copies of the DVD to share with family and friends.
Entries need to be received by Fine Art Registry by July 31st.
They will be judged by Fine Art Registry staff and their decision will be final.
So, get your thoughts together, pull out that video camera, tape recorder or pen and paper, answer the questions and send your answer to:
If the file is too large to email, if you have any questions, if you need help with format, etc. please send an email to that address with your request for help or information.
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