The saying goes that art imitates life. But sometimes, art imitates art.
And an anonymous Instagram account is openly shaming contemporary canvases that closely resemble other works – sparking off a debate around appropriation and plagiarism within the art world.
@whos____who is juxtaposing side-by-side images of strikingly similar work by different artists in a bid to shame copycats.
It’s got nearly 22.5k followers; rather than leading followers to draw conclusions, it just quietly leaves the images along with the names of the artists and lets people make up their own minds.
As ArtNet points out, the conversation has even stretched to things like blackface, with white artist Josh Smith’s painting of watermelons being called out for ripping off the late African-American folk artist, Mose Tolliver’s image of the fruit.
‘A good example of how Blackface works casually in art now,’ one user writes.
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from Metro https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/13/vigilante-instagram-account-shaming-copycats-art-world-7627174/
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