This is standard practice in "art" now, since the 1990s. The trend towards complete reliance on a mix of technology and low-paid assistants (often in China or SE Asia) to replace all the laborious & skilled parts of the work fully took over in the 1990s with the Brit Art crowd.
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The original "everything done by assistants" guy was Andy Warhol, who got rich selling photo-derived silk-screen prints that had nothing to do with him other than being made by people working in his studio (friendly critics justified it with Po-Mo logic & bad art history).
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It took a while, though, before this approach completely wiped everything else from the map.
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Wiley’s con is logical consequence of post-Warhol world of PoMo Big Art (e.g., outsourcing of art by Damien Hirst) & harkens to longstanding African tradition of the scam (e.g., typical African dictator; the Nigerian prince scam; welfare abuse; etc.)https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/outsourcing-the-creation-of-art-1.405323 …
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“This makes it even more unique and beautiful.”
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Gotta think in a few years, that these will be quietly moved to O's Library, to be hung in a place of honor near the third floor restrooms, with appropriate portraits installed in the National Gallery.
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Does that lower the value of art purchased by him? Asking for a friend.https://twitter.com/fredwilson/status/963224504368472065 …
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