Most creative work is made to a brief so is fake art in film actually fake?
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- The Christophers, a new Ian McKellan-starring film includes 16 ‘fake’ artworks by painter Barnaby Gorton.
- Our culture columnist Gary Grimes argues that this body of work isn’t so different from the pieces that hang in our galleries.
- The painter used polaroids shot with a model by Antonia Lowe and director Soderbergh as his references for the series of paintings.
- Barnaby has previously created artwork for films like the Harry Potter series, Gambit, and Assassin’s Creed.
The work of Lucien Freud (who himself will soon be depicted on the big screen in the upcoming film Moss & Freud, played by Derek Jacobi) informed the style of unfinished Christopher paintings whi [+904 chars]
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