[F_minor] Han van Meegeren Syndrome

["MJ Watts" <mj.accounts@gmail.com>]

Seems GG's old friend Han van Meegeren has made news again:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/08/05/bavermeer.xml

*Frank Wynne tells the extraordinary story of Han van Meegeren, the Dutch
> artist whose 'Vermeer' made him a folk hero*
>
> I've always loved a forger. It's difficult not to feel a surge of joy at
> the thought of an eminent critic waxing lyrical over the glories of a
> "17th-century masterpiece" on which the paint is barely dry. If the pinnacle
> of Western art is arguably Leonardo da Vinci, his shadow self in the
> pantheon of forgers is Han van Meegeren.

So is it art if it is "fake"?  And is it art if it is out of the style of
its time?  Can someone now create a 17th century masterpiece and be hailed
as genius or do you really have to be "original" to be "great"?

Gould made his case in -- what was the essay?  The Prospects of Recording?
I'd like to hear everyone make theirs!

-MJ
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