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I have considered getting an artist to reproduce a Van Gogh the old fashioned way - painting it.

Never went ahead with the idea but I assume (I am not a painter) that modern high quality oils would allow a reasonably talented artist to repro a Van Gogh to a sufficiently accurate degree. I just need it to "fool" me, not an expert.

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They had over 100 artists produce 65,000 frames on 1000 canvases in the style of Van Gogh to animate the movie Loving Vincent. It took them 4 years to develop the technique and 2 years to do it all:

http://lovingvincent.com/

http://lovingvincent.com/technology,48,pl.html

Funny enough, there are plenty of forgers out there that have no trouble fooling even the top experts. Many times, they have to resort to testing canvas and paint flecks and using special imaging technology to discern fake from original.

https://www.nziff.co.nz/2017/archive-1/chinas-van-goghs/

I considered doing this too. I wonder if there is a service doing this.

Yup there are tons of them in all price points. Read this a while ago https://medium.com/message/uber-for-art-forgeries-2c9c8bf416...

The interview with the reproductions company from the link was fascinating:

Are the reproductions good enough to be mistaken for real masterpieces?

No, it is impossible. No one can do it. Even the original artist can’t do it.

Can’t do what?

Can’t fake their own painting.

That confuses me. Anyway, do you consider what you do forgery?

Even the great art works, like those by Van Gogh, belong to humanity, not only the museum or rich people.

Huh, can't believe never came across one of these. Will order one now and see it for myself. Very excited, thank you! It's not grossly expensive too, seems like I can order one as low as $150 which is dirt cheap compared to how expensive furniture and decors usually are. Pretty amazing.

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