Signature or author's statement as a mark of market recognition
The tattooist is also an artist and there are even those among us whose works are worthy of the master's signature. A tattoo is first and foremost an object created by a person or a group of people. What do we understand by the signature of an author's work today and what methods does history preserve?
One of the Northern European old master Jan van Eyck, in his work Arnolfini Engagement in the Mirror, signed in the center of the composition in two lines of calligraphic letters: (Jan van Eyck was here in 1434.) This hasn’t made the work worse - on the contrary, he confirmed the engagement of the newlyweds by immortalizing them in his painting.
Sometimes painters use puns to provoke or demonstrate their convictions. In 20th century the 1980s, in several works of the mythological series, Jean-Michel Alberola signed Acteon fecit ("Acteon has done it"), indicating that the master, like the hunter Acteon, who surprised Diana while swimming and was executed, compared to the spectator who couldn’t, didn’t know how to or dare to see.
In today's subculture, we also have our own extraordinary artist who literally carved his nickname BANKSY on the wall with his provocative wall drawings. We dare and seek our own artistic path and of course if the work is worthy of You, we sign......