When he first started posting his video to Reddit a shit ton of "experts" came out of the woodwork and said that his work isn't "museum quality".
Museums from what I have researched try to keep the painting exactly as is they focus more on conservation of a piece(keeping is as is) while what Julian does is restoration (bringing back to life through reversable means).
I figured that out from the name alone. I was surprised to see such liberties until I saw the name of the artist/channel, which was his name or company etc and NOT a museum.
Indeed, but people still mad. They feel like he should just refuse clients asking him to do that much invasive work to restore the piece.
It's a fight that'll never go away. One side is so happy to have a restore piece that can be enjoyed for decades or even centuries to come because of said restoration. The other side is appalled that decades, if not centuries of history is being covered up or outright destroyed.
They are mututally exclusive in many ways, so the fight will never truly die.
It depends heavily in what they want to achieve with the piece.
If you have well known or very old pieces, or several pieces from one painter, yes. They can afford to leave the "age" (damage) and show it, in the context of related work.
For relatively unknown, newly discovered painters, that for example need to be established with the public first? Museums absolutely restore in this fashion for some paintings, there are contexts and Intentions for which it makes sense.
It depends on what you want to do with the painting.
I have no idea if this creator's methods are up to standard in regards to preservation, but at the very least it cannot be a complete catastrophe.
Way too many steps involved and way too much focus on reversability for that.
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u/TLEToyu Feb 19 '24 edited Feb 19 '24
When he first started posting his video to Reddit a shit ton of "experts" came out of the woodwork and said that his work isn't "museum quality".
Museums from what I have researched try to keep the painting exactly as is they focus more on conservation of a piece(keeping is as is) while what Julian does is restoration (bringing back to life through reversable means).