Masters works on display

Masters works on display

JAKARTA (JP): Le Musee Imaginaire, a celebrated association of
painters, will hold an exhibition of 100 "imitated" paintings of
world-famous masterpieces from July 12 to July 19 at the Jakarta
Hilton Hotel's Lagoon Tower.

The association's director, Karim Jallaul said yesterday that
the imitated paintings on display will include the works of such
masters as Picasso, Renoir, Van Gogh, Monet, Gauguin, Matisse,
Rembrandt and Chagall.

"The painters of these imitated masterpieces knew very well
the detailed characteristics of their original masters, either
their color tones, themes, material choices or their difficult
painting techniques." Jallaul said. "So those paintings look
exactly like the originals," he said. Karim did not identify the
imitators.

"Celebrity customers of Le Musee Imaginaire include Elizabeth
Taylor, Sophia Loren, Frank Sinatra and Arnold Schwarzenegger,"
said Dieter Prachner, the organizing director of Le Musee. (26)