Inspiration | Imitation | Plagiarism [slightly NSFW]

[LoTekk]

© Hu Ming

... probably inspired by ... uhm ...


Mona Lisa  

[Pomme]

This is a wonderful thread.



Waterhouse "Echo and Narcissus"


Unsure if this is the artist's correct name and unsure of title : Don Doe

[naturalia]

by RES
A lollipop to anyone who can remember the "original" painting...

and another RES, for our ongoing Lady with Ermine collection.

More images here: http://www.lisasettegallery.com/artistsP-Z/res.htm

[Suzanne]

by RES
A lollipop to anyone who can remember the "original" painting...

Ooooh! I like the entire "inspired by" series of that artist. Particularly Picasso's "Boy with Pipe".. err.. "Egg". Genius! I bet our dear adamPadam will like it too.

Anyway.. to come to that lollipop: It's a double portrait of Federico da Montefeltro (Duke of Urbino) and his wife Battista Sforza by good old Piero della Francesca.

I like the original very much because of the awkward nose of Montefeltro. It is said that he lost one eye in battle and had parts of his nose removed so that he could still see 180° when on a battlefield.

Link to original

[naturalia]

Hooray! Dear old Piero della Francesca! Of coooourse! Thank you ever so much. I've seen it a million times in art survey classes but...well, that was awhile ago. *cough* Send me your address for promised treat...
P.S. Nice bonus story about the nose whittling!

[Suzanne]

Weeeee!

I'll get a lollipop.. I'll get a lollipop!

[LoTekk]

Either he redesigned his page or it has been offline for a while ... or probably I'm mixing something up here, but ... it's there. Astonishing photographer.


© Eugenio Recuenco


"The Death of Marat", 1793 by Jacques-Louis David

[naturalia]

Wonderful! Thank you. Love both artists dearly.

[Suzanne]

Well.. maybe this is a bit far-fetched or maybe I'm just hypersensitive when it comes to gherkins in art, but using them as spectators is a 1980s idea of the ingenious Swiss artist team Fischli & Weiss, imho. However, seeing that Gonzenbach is Swiss too, it is probably a homage rather than plagiarism.


© Peter Fischli & David Weiss "In Arnos Teppichladen" ("The Carpet Dealer"), 1980



© Christian Gonzenbach "Gherkins", video still, 2005

[Suzanne]

Meninas detrás del espejo from Martín La Spina's "Recreando el Arte" series


Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez, 1656

[Suzanne]

Mona Lisa in the Third Place by Yasumasa Morimura, 1998


Mona Lisa or La Gioconda (La Joconde) by Leonardo da Vinci, ca. 1503–1507



Doublonnage by Yasumasa Morimura, 1995


Rrose Sélavy by Marcel Duchamp, 1921

[naturalia]

Well, I'd say this falls into the imitation/plagiarism category...and Viner is (rightly) pissed off!

If anyone would like to write nasty notes to W Magazine on his behalf...
http://blog.myspace.com/...



LayoutPolice: I just had to shorten that myspace link as it somewhat destroyed the beloved Wurzelforum layout -- should still work as intended. ~LoTekk

[Suzanne]

How utterly disgraceful of Steven Klein to do such a thing. Even more so because his "interpretations" work neither iconographically nor aesthetically. I'm disgusted.  

[Suzanne]

© Banksy, 2006/07 (?)


Petite Danseuse de quatorze ans by Edgar Degas, 1881

[Suzanne]

In a series of 14 comparisons, Slate asks "Can Photographers Be Plagiarists?"