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Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)
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Re: Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)
#22When my mom was an art student in the 1950s, duplicating a famous painting was a training exercise. In fact, the museum would let you bring in your easel and set it up in the exhibit hall. I remember seeing this done when I was a kid. Maybe they've gotten too prickly about security, or copyrights, because I don't see this being done any more.
Surely today you’d just take a photo with your phone and paint at home.
Re: Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)
#23When my mom was an art student in the 1950s, duplicating a famous painting was a training exercise. In fact, the museum would let you bring in your easel and set it up in the exhibit hall. I remember seeing this done when I was a kid. Maybe they've gotten too prickly about security, or copyrights, because I don't see this being done any more.
Surely today you’d just take a photo with your phone and paint at home.
Have you ever looked at a painting?
Re: Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)
#24When my mom was an art student in the 1950s, duplicating a famous painting was a training exercise. In fact, the museum would let you bring in your easel and set it up in the exhibit hall. I remember seeing this done when I was a kid. Maybe they've gotten too prickly about security, or copyrights, because I don't see this being done any more.
Surely today you’d just take a photo with your phone and paint at home.
Camera cannot capture subtle details that are visible only through naked eyes and a creative brain to process
Re: Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)
#25When my mom was an art student in the 1950s, duplicating a famous painting was a training exercise. In fact, the museum would let you bring in your easel and set it up in the exhibit hall. I remember seeing this done when I was a kid. Maybe they've gotten too prickly about security, or copyrights, because I don't see this being done any more.
As an art student in London in 1982, this was common practice. I remember doing a pastel copy of one of Degas' washing nudes at the Cortauld Institute. You would often see art students set up in a museum like that, though I haven't seen that again in many years.
Re: Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely today you’d just take a photo with your phone and paint at home.
Camera cannot capture subtle details that are visible only through naked eyes and a creative brain to process
The only thing a camera is not capturing is any 3D details and light reflectivity. Unless you are trying to create an absolute perfect replica, I’m not sure why you’d need that level of detail. As an artist you should be able to add that detail yourself.
Re: Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Camera cannot capture subtle details that are visible only through naked eyes and a creative brain to process
The only thing a camera is not capturing is any 3D details and light reflectivity. Unless you are trying to create an absolute perfect replica, I’m not sure why you’d need that level of detail. As an artist you should be able to add that detail yourself.
I think the process also involves focusing on and appreciating the craft of the painting through the process of redrawing it.
Otherwise that art-school lesson is rather that every impression in the world can be equally represented by a JPEG on some screen (and while painting is a fun exercise, it's just "a imprecise JPEG with extra steps")...
Re: Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)
#28When my mom was an art student in the 1950s, duplicating a famous painting was a training exercise. In fact, the museum would let you bring in your easel and set it up in the exhibit hall. I remember seeing this done when I was a kid. Maybe they've gotten too prickly about security, or copyrights, because I don't see this being done any more.
I remember seeing this in the 2000s - students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the galleries, though not with easels. Usually pastels or pencils on a large drawing pad.
Re: Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)
#29When my mom was an art student in the 1950s, duplicating a famous painting was a training exercise. In fact, the museum would let you bring in your easel and set it up in the exhibit hall. I remember seeing this done when I was a kid. Maybe they've gotten too prickly about security, or copyrights, because I don't see this being done any more.
As an art student in London in 1982, this was common practice. I remember doing a pastel copy of one of Degas' washing nudes at the Cortauld Institute. You would often see art students set up in a museum like that, though I haven't seen that again in many years.
Seeing just this taking place was one of the highlights for me when visiting the Musée d'Orsay last year - seeing people sketch and watercolour in several of the galleries made the museum become so much more alive.
Re: Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)
#30tbh the copyright stuff always feels way too long - I just want to look at cool art and make stuff without all this red tape