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Do you think I can get away with painting a picture that are copied from magazine spread in an art class?
Would I be able to receive a passing grade?
Let's see, the idea of an art is not just the finished product. Is the inspiration original? The idea of composition original?
"Venus in Furs" is a book. So the title is not original, but the content of the book has nothing to do with fashion spread.
The virtuosity is not about how you can "re-create" the existing art. Do you know how much does the artist suffers from the pain of creating the original idea? Painting or composing music, no matter the format, when you concoct the original idea of the creation, your work is more than half way done. The rest is labor.
The art cannot be 100% labor. That become a simple craft. Nothing more.
Crafts men that produce the same chairs everyday are not the artists. The design has been done by someone else, and he simply recreates. The craftsmanship is an important part of the quality of the product, however, that is simply EXPECTED, isn't it?
There are highly skilled craftsmen, who may be able to command a lot of fees... But that isn't the point, either. The fee is paid, only if the quality of the product is met.
It may involve complicated skills, but it never be an art, because the idea of an art MUST be original.
Just a thought.
Sometimes the plagiate is what makes the original more awesome. You don't get credit for copying Fred but it makes Fred more awesome!
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