The one common feature all and every art forger share with each other is their losing out the art historical narrative. If not overt and aggressively anti-modernist, as for instance Van Meege­ren, more defaitistic disagreeing over the artistic trends of their time, as for instance Eric Hebborn, Elmyr de Hory, or Wolfgang Beltracchi, or simply ignorant of the ideas of the avant-garde and modernism, as for instance Alceo Dossena or Tom Keating, they share this common aesthetic view, based on craft and skill rather than innovation and iconoclasm.