Nolan is the director of the Lycarta Society, an organization dedicated to identifying art forgeries throughout the world. Nolan has been doing his job for almost twenty years, and he is a particular expert in the works of Jackson Pollock, an American painter. Last week, Nolan simply glanced at a painting, and he was able to instantly say that it had not been created by Pollock, with virtually no information other than a quick visual scan of the piece.