It is approaching that stage when, as Mr. Leonard, the Getty conservator, put it, "people coming in no longer say, 'What happened there?' or 'What are you going to do about that?' and start talking about the painting; somehow the damages have become secondary and people are seeing what the artist put there".
Lenora Paglia, a conservator at the Staten Island Museum, approached Mr. Juárez with a question about how to use alache.
Attitudes in the field had shifted toward a more aesthetically oriented approach, in which conservators disguise losses, with the goal of enabling the work to be experienced as a picture, not just as an archeological artifact.
The approaches taken by the conservator to slow this deterioration are guided by a large number of complex considerations.
Some conservators used increasingly aggressive approaches to cleaning and conservation, favoring overpainting and other interventionist methods.
For Ryan, the process has completely reshaped how she approaches her role as a conservator: "When I first started out, I thought: You identify a problem, talk to the artist, go back and fix it.
It's more like: What's the solution for now?" For Ryan, the process has completely reshaped how she approaches her role as a conservator: "When I first started out, I thought: You identify a problem, talk to the artist, go back and fix it.
British historic interiors conservator Helen Hughes said that the "top down" French approach to restoration contrasted with procedures in the UK, where users were routinely consulted.
But he appears to be taking a fairly literal approach to the agency's role as conservator of Fannie and Freddie — because the taxpayers own these companies, it must conserve their assets and get money back where it is owed.
In any conservation project, conservators have to address several questions to design the appropriate intervention strategy.
