There has been discussion in /The Australian/ about white artists interfering with the construction of indigenous artist works. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/a-cultural-revolution-needed-for-indigenous-art/news-story/03b6b4d90958da5bb07c1b442eeb98df A commenter on the page makes an analogy to renaissance artists that had proteges working on canvases yet signed their own names. I don't think it is equivalent, and wrote this letter, "The essence of traditional western art is the artist's mastery. We judge a work's ambition, the degree to which the artist rose to the challenge of its perspective and technique. If it was done by a protege of the signed artist, that would be an interesting detail, but only a detail. Hinchliffe writes, "The best .. Aboriginal art has been a window through which .. the world can glimpse a .. fragment of .. Aboriginal occupation." In aboriginal art, the essence of the product is its other-worldliness. The outsider comes for the mystique. The key quality is the authenticity of the viewer's journey. To deceive the authenticity is to break contract with the viewer."