Subject: Question Barb, Arlene, etc
| Posted By: Krisztian
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| Posted On: 9/25/1999 9:08 AM
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I appreciate all of your replies to my question about using photo's as subjects for my work. After reading all of your input I must admit that my question stands.
I dont use photo's for all my work, in fact the majority of my work is 100% original. When I use a photo I simply use it for a subject. I enjoy trying to recreate a subject
in pencil. For example I am almost finished with a drawing that I titled 'Pencil Interpretation of Andrea d'Agnolo's St. John the Babtist' it was derived from a photo of the original painting
By Andrea d'Agnolo. You might even be familiar with this painting. I got this photo from a book that I was looking through and this particular picture caught my eye.
I thought it would be extremely challenging to recreate this painting in pencil. I always thought that an artist sells his/her techniques more than the subject. In this particular case
is it posible that someone actually owns the right (besides the artist himself) to this painting that was done between 1486-1530. Does the owner of the Mona Lisa own the actual subject of the painting?
I am still going to draw what suits my eye regardless of the legal complications, but I would still like to know the truth about this matter. I would also like to know who in this world can decide what an artist can or cannot be insired by.
Does changing the medium have anything to do with this?
Thank you again for your replies to my previous questions. I hope that Barb and Arlene can have another little battle over this.
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