An idea, open for discussion, presented here in visual form from Holiday Matinee. So…what are your opinions on stealing, or the professional person’s term: appropriating?
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Well, it depends. If someone is copying a persons style outright, I think that is wrong. I think it is a bit disrespectful since ideally the person developed that look over time and worked to get it to be their own. I do think that ideas are recycled and I personally like to see different takes on the same concept. As an artist you cannot be extremely attached to anything you do or come up with. You need to be able to constantly evolve because no matter what your idea has or will be done again. I also think it is a little rude if close friends take each others ideas without permission because of the fact that it can cause rockiness in friendships. I also think that it is nice to share tips and tricks with one another. Art is better off being a place of ideas and learning long term, not just in school.
i think of it as blueberry muffins, there are so many people out there making blueberry muffins, do we get upset about this? no, most of us do not. but for some reason we do when it comes to art, we can be so possessive and scared that people are going to steal our ideas (as if they are only ours and no one before us ever had them). which brings me back to the blueberry muffin, you do end up tasting one that ends up being your favorite, they are each made slightly different because of the person that makes them, that is the secret ingredient! lastly, in case i have offended anyone with the muffin equals art idea, there is an art to cooking just like there is an art to how you see your art and it’s relationship to life.
kt
p.s. i love the jim jarmusch quote
I love this quote!
We always “steal” from the world around us…
Real artists need to keep their eyes – and hearts – open.
I like what kt said about blueberry muffins 😛 I think that it’s obvious when someone steals your blueberry muffins and tries to pass it off as their own – that’s wrong. I completely understand the frustration of so many artists, dealing with legal matters and how un-fun those processes can be. But if someone wants to make their own blueberry muffins, I wouldn’t say no to that. It’s important to not be sneaky about it too. Most artists say, hey I was so inspired I decided to do this… Freedom of expression, right? We should all feel free to create whatever we want without worry – I don’t want to lose that and be all sad because someone did it before me and it’s off limits now. Ultimately, it’s not going to be the same thing, it’ll be another interpretation. We build on our past, standing on the shoulder of giants and really we should all concentrate more on looking forward and growing together. I believe there is room for all of us.
I want to chime in and say how much I love kt’s analogy of blueberry muffins, ha!
One of the very first things we did at art school was to choose one of our favourite artists/illustrators and do a ‘pastiche’ of his/her work. It was meant to look as if that person could have done it themselves. What we found was that, despite all our hardest efforts, the work we each produced still bore the fingerprint of ourselves, whether it was in the mark making, the colouring, or the subject matter.
What it taught us was that we are not isolated in our own bubble as artists, that we should always look at and interrogate the work of those we admire in order to feed our own work, and that whilst nobody is truly ‘original’, there is an individuality to all of us that makes our work unique.
There is no shame in looking at other people’s work and taking lessons from it. I start by trying to mimic something I like in order to understand it, and then I see where I can take it, just like in that wonderful quote.
What a thought-provoking question, Amy! I am not right, this is just my opinion 🙂
sorry! I meant Racheal!
they are each made slightly different because of the person that makes them, that is the secret ingredient!