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For my birthday a friend wrote me this AMAZING academic style bio. (Academic yet humorous)
Naturally, this cannot fail to please even the most humble of egos. And my ego blossomed delightfully reading it.
I don’t know who’d be interested in reading my fake artist bio but it must be posted! It’s quite excellent.
As part of a trade bargain for producing such academia for me the friend will get a portrait (click here).
Additionally as soon as said friend is done with their torturous PhD I’m going to convince her to write a piece of erotic fiction in a similar style of academic gibberish that I will then illustrate.
The Oevre of Janine Shroff
The Oevre of Janine Shroff
Dr. Anokhi Parikh
Born in a “small tin shack in Juhu”1 to artist parents and trained in the lesser-known Jamnabai School of thought, Shroff is a minority artist of immeasurable talent. Her adolescent experiences of being forcefully ensconced on the beach by the heterosexual Hindu male body, the formative
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Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960
1998 book by William Boyd
Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960 is a 1998 novel, presented as a biography, by the Scottish writer William Boyd. Nat Tate was an imaginary person, invented by Boyd and created as "an abstract expressionist who destroyed '99%' of his work and leapt to his death from the Staten Island ferry. His body was never found."[1] At the time of the novel's launch, Boyd went some way to encourage the belief that Tate had really existed.
Art hoax
Boyd published the book as a hoax, presented as a real biography. Gore Vidal, John Richardson (Picasso's biographer), Karen Wright (then editor of the influential Modern Painters magazine) and David Bowie (a board member of Modern Painters and co-director with Karen Wright of 21 Publishing, which published the book) were all participants in the hoax. "Nat Tate" is a combination of the names of two London art galleries, the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery. Boyd and his conspirators set about convincing the New York glitterati (social elites) th
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John Myatt
English painter
John Myatt, (born 1945), is a British artist convicted of art forgery who, with John Drewe, perpetrated what has been described as "the biggest art fraud of the 20th century".[1] In 1999 he was convicted of conspiracy to defraud and imprisoned for four months. Since his conviction, Myatt has continued to paint in the style of famous artists, selling his works as "genuine fakes".[2]
Early life
The son of a farmer, Myatt attended art school and discovered a talent for mimicking other artists' styles but at first only painted for amusement and for friends. He worked as a songwriter for a time and claims authorship of the song "Silly Games", a UK no. 2 hit for Janet Kay in 1979, although this is attributed by Kay to producer Dennis Bovell and credited to Diana Bovell. He later worked as a teacher in Staffordshire.[3][4]
Painting
When his wife left him in 1985, Myatt gave up teaching to spend more time with his children, and attempted to make a living by painting original works in the style of
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