EPT(if you look hard enough you can find them on free video sites or torrents)
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3654964/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_A._Landis
Mark Landis has been called one of the most prolific art forgers in US history. His impressive body of work spans thirty years, covering a wide range of painting styles and periods that includes 15th Century Icons, Picasso, and even Walt Disney. And while the copies could fetch impressive sums on the open market, Landis isn’t in it for money..
He's a strange man who does sick good forgeries and gives them away to museums and universities. It's not illegal, but everyone hates him. From another's perspective, a more broadened sense, is that his entire life is a performance art escapade and makes a mockery of classical art. (he would socially engineer his way into places posed as a preacher or an inheriting relative)
You could also argue that his methods for creating old looking paintings and such was the actual art itself.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3089388/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim's_Vermeer
Tim Jenison is an inventor who has become the successful founder of NewTek, a company working in various fields of computer graphics, most notably the 3D modelling software LightWave 3D. Jenison, himself both an engineer and art enthusiast, becomes fascinated with the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, a 17th-century Dutch painter, whose paintings have been oft cited to have a photographic quality to them; Jenison, spurred by the book Secret Knowledge by British artist David Hockney and Vermeer's Camera by British architecture professor Philip Steadman, theorizes that Vermeer potentially used a camera obscura to guide his painting technique..
It's ridiculous the amount of time, work, and money he put into recreating this 'Music Lesson' painting. He even learns a language in order to research more in detail.
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Both of these guys are hugely different people with vastly different lives and backgrounds. If you had to give them one thing that they have in common is tenacity, or grit.
I'd say that is the single most important thing successful people have in common from all walks of life.
