influence or ripoff?
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Clearly I've hit a nerve here.
I thought that their thematic similarities combined with interviews where she lists him as an artist she looks at/inspired by was more than enough correlation. Subjectivity aside, I can respect that the over-whelming majority of you prefer her work and won't argue that. I admit my bias, him being a good friend of mine and I can see that she clearly is a skilled painter. My issue, as it's always been, is that there's a lot of themes repeated and some tricks she's used that if were autonomously used I'd say were from the huge pool of talent and inspiration out there. Yes, there are a lot of illustrators doing work like this and my friend is NOT the best at it or the originator. Because there have been a lot of things used in tandem my conclusion is that it became less 'inspired by' and more 'borrowed from' - which to echo a good many of your comments is the name of the game and how we all make a living. Look at the example of Jonathan Ive & Dieter Rams or Ryan McGinley & Janine Gordon. A lot people would cry foul because of some blatant, thematic/formal examples of 'inspiration' - but others would say they're being informed by the collective and pushing the medium forward because it's done better. Better is subjective. At the end of the day I would hope we could discuss this rationally and not throw insults or one sentence jabs - I'm cool being wrong - and perhaps, in this case I was. I take it as a lesson not only in illustration but also evaluation.
@e-pill: Did I ever do anything personal to you?
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