Spotting fakes has long been a neccessity when dealing with paintings from artists such as van Gogh, Monet, da Vinci and others. The art industry may now have some help in identifying fakes.
A team of artists and scientists, led by Richard Johnson, of Cornell University, is using digital scans of numerous van Gogh paintings to test the possibility of sniffing out fakes and forgeries by teaching the computer program to identify brush strokes that belong to van Gogh.
If the experiment works, they could perform these tests on paintings that some consider forgeries to find the truth once and for all.
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