This is for research for my novel. I remember this made news this summer about a college professor who plagarized art. I'm wonder if you can copy the painting like Picasso or O'Keefe did, without missing or changing anything. Is that considered to be plagarism in art or is that legal? Is there another term for it too?
2006-12-06 04:16:49 · 5 answers · asked by Kristen H 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
You can copy another's art as long as you do not try to claim it as your own original piece. And absolutely never claim it is the actual original done by the original artist.
2006-12-06 04:27:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I also am aware of plagarism in art, music and writing. It is sort of gross but it's so widespread it's difficult to control In Art though, especially new artists or painters must find it very difficult to be 'original'; as nearly everything in the world has been rendered in one way or another. So the artisit is always searching for unique ways to express the same themes as other artists; for example 'still life'.
Sometimes an artist uses an image that another artisit has used in the past and draws. Once I did a pastel painting of still life. Since I did not have a large studio I placed the arrangement on my floor and began to draw. It was one of my better drawings and I really liked it. Then about 4 months later I happened to see a book of van gough's rendering of his shoes on his floor. I almost screamed!!! We have the same floor.
Well, I have to give myself a break as I'm part Dutch, we may have some genetic predisposition to using the floor for our arrangements.
2006-12-10 21:29:53 · answer #2 · answered by C. P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are two other terms for it. One is forgery but that is when you are trying to pass it off as the original. It is plagarism when you are passing it off as your own work. But when you call it a copy 'after so-and-so's work' by you it is called a compliment. Compliments are totally legal!
2006-12-06 12:30:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can copy great artists all you want but when you represent a piece that is not by the artist, as one done by the artist; then it becomes fraud.
Plagerism in art is when you pass off a work of art as being your creation when you have not done the work.
2006-12-06 13:25:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think its called counterfeit, and only if your trying to sell it.
2006-12-06 12:23:45 · answer #5 · answered by zabadass 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋