A Japanese man has figured out how to make money on modern connoisseurs of unusual art (3 photos)

I love talented people, and this Japanese guy is not just talented, he is a brilliant charlatan.





Modern art has reached such heights that sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between garbage in front of you or, God forgive me, an installation. Critics and art historians have long since come to terms with this theater of the absurd, now they only puff out their cheeks importantly, nod their heads, looking at the next strange "masterpiece", and collectors, looking at these nodding heads, conscientiously buy these very "masterpieces".



So, 41-year-old Yukio Tanaka has long understood this simple scheme and has been ripping off suckers as best he could. The plan is simple: "So, we take a bunch of art-obsessed people. We declare that we are capable of creating unique paintings that only those people who have reached the highest level of enlightenment can see, and we make a buck."

A classic of the genre from the category of "invisible dress for the king." Only instead of a dress, paintings that are "mirrors of the inner world," and so that customers have no doubts, certificates of authenticity come with the paintings. Collectors and galleries paid tens, and then hundreds of thousands of dollars for this happiness.



Things were going well until an Arab sheikh decided to buy one of these paintings from a gallery owner in Osaka. Independent experts confirmed that the canvases were simply clean.