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The forger who fooled art experts

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If the snobby art critics say your paintings are bad, the best revenge is painting a fake masterpiece and fooling them all. A frustrated artist meticulously forged entirely fake classical paintings and sold them to highly arrogant experts who praised them as authentic genius. He singlehandedly proved the entire art appraisal system was completely made up.

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