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Is this the end of painting?

Martin Gayford asks whether the high-tech age spells doom for old-fashioned art

issue 11 October 2003

Some arty readers may have been concerned by the recent news about Monet and Rolf Harris. A substantial section of the population, it seems, is unable to tell the difference between them — some thinking that the Australian entertainer depicted the waterlilies at Giverny. Admittedly, both have or had grizzled beards, but even so the information is a disturbing straw in the wind.

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