Belgian painter Luc Tuymans was convicted of plagiarism today over his painting A Belgian Politician, which he claims is a parody of a photograph taken by Katrijn Van Giel. The photographer, however, felt that he borrowed too heavily from her original image (judge for yourself here: nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20150120_01484129). Painters using photographs taken by others as inspiration for their work is nothing new: Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol did entire series of works like that. Red Grooms painted a Coney Island scene exactly as photographed by Weegee. Is there a difference? Grooms called his painting Weegee 1940 while Tuymans made no reference to Van Giel; is that the difference? An interesting discussion about artistic license, if nothing else.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:53:53 +0000
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