Can I paint a painting of a famous living artist? Or is this a copywrighted?

Question

I want to sell it to a few friends of a friend.

Answer 1

I guess if you're working isn't right on exactly like theirs than it'll be OK.

Answer 2

I wouldn't do it. You can work in their style, but copying exactly a painting from a famous living artist is wrong. There are some paintings that because of time are okay to reproduce images of them, but I wouldn't do this from a living artist. What if someone copied your work--your passion, ideas, and originality --and sold them without giving you any of the profits.

Answer 3

If you copy a painting that is copyrighted you are in the wrong. You can be sued for it because you stealing somebodies original ideas.

Answer 4

When I was an art student in college, our prof would take us to an art museum and have us sit in front of the works of art and copy them, for practice. As long as you're not selling knock-offs of their work, it's okay.

No, you shouldn't sell copies of someone else's painting. You could be sued.

Answer 5

Copying a master is a time honored way of improving an artist's skills. It's only unethical if you forge another artist's signature and claim that your copy is the original.

Answer 6

I would agree that there is no copyright attached to a painting, and you can copy it. Just don't try and sell it as the original - that's fraud, which is illegal.

Answer 7

It is only copyrighted if you use the copyrighted material. You can paint anything, even if it is a copyrighted picture, because painting is your interpretation of the person or image and does not have a "copyright" seal.

Answer 8

Of course you can... its very post-modern!!!