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Tullah was a hairdresser before she started to paint as a weekend hobby. She didn't attend any Arts school, so she bought some books on painting techniques, some painting materials and taught herself; when she learnt the technique, she started to copy elements from her old cards and posters of the 1920s.

Her paintings were very likeable and she started to leave pieces at the next-door antique shop, where her paintings became very popular. Tullah's popularity increased immediately, and so the number of collectors, auctioneers and galleries knocking on her door. She quit hairdressing and started to have a great life as a painter, meddling with posh people where she was highly regarded.

Then, the BBC called on her for an interview at a radio show where only great artists were interviewed. When asked about the inspiration of her famous tryptic, the one in the British Gallery for Contemporary Arts, Tullah naively replied that she had just copied different figures from well-known posters/cards, and put them together in each image. She added that, the cards/posters were so well known, that she thought that everybody would have noticed.

Next morning, Tullah's world crumbled. She read nasty comments from the critics on the national newspaper, the auction houses returned her works with silly excuses, and there would be no further media coverage of her work or open exhibitions. What is more, the British Gallery removed her paintings from public display and put them in its basement deposit.

Although Tullah continued painting,she could not make a living from it, so she used her last savings to buy a restaurant, where people were visiting her and buying her latest works until she died in 1985.

This is, of course, an hypothetical scenario, as the ones provided in the other entries. Here my questions 1/ Do you think that Tullah was a real artist? 2/ Do you think it was justified the reaction of the Art market and the media to her confession and her paintings? Please, explain your answer. Thanks!