The story of the Emperor's New Clothes appeals to me because of the overwhelming assumed pretense in the modernistic art world. Movers and shakers like Saatchi can turn a meaningless artworks into multi-million pound collectors items on a whim. Saatchi has sculpted the contemporary art world, he is the tailor in the Hans Christian Anderson fable.
I have looked into other bits of symbolism in greed, money and fakery classically used in painting.
Egyptian gods, goetia daemons, tarrot symbols and greek gods, sins and their attributing punishments/symbols.
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