Counterfeiting and the Value of Art That art is duplicatable and public simultaneously at different places is a very modern phenomenon since the industrialisation. We can experience any art at any place and in our hands: Devices allow us to retrieve art from various places, artists and times. We can now look up the artworks from the early Greeks, can dive into the Renaissance and Leonardo da Vinci’s famous creations or we can scroll through social media to see what contemporary people create and publish as “art�. Having this opportunity, art and cultures are spreading much faster. We can be inspired and communicate with artists from all over the globe. But do we actually experience those mediums as we experience the art we see as an original? Do we observe art like we did in the ages before the digital revolution? In our age, in which art can be mechanically reproduced, real art is being tested. It is questioned what the value of buying an artwork is, when you can easily download and print it on a canvas yourself. This development of public into a private experience of art decreases the effort we need to spend to consume art. We do not further need to go to a museum if we want to enjoy the aesthetic appearances. And yet, people still visit exhibitions and leave their houses to see a unique and original artwork. That demonstrates that there is a value behind art that is not a copy. The originality of an artwork is not endangered, even if
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