Artists Steal

It is perfectly fine to copy peoples artwork, if you give it your own spin. You cant fully copy everything about it. Most artists in time stole ideas from someone else. For example you could say the "mona lisa" was a stolen idea because someone painted a person in a frame before da vinci. You could say all art is stolen ideas, or that they are copied ideas. I like the word copied better than i like the word stolen. I think that copying ideas or "stealing" them is perfectly fine when it comes to art. I have stolen many ideas from artists and made them my own. You could never come up with anything 100% original.

This is a perfect example of a piece of artwork that was copied or "stolen".In My art class i have to take this concept of stealing a piece of art and i have to change it or copy it to make it my own. The art piece im choosing is " A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte ". What im going to do to this piece is im going to make the main girl with the umbrella the grim reaper and im going to make all the other people the restless souls stuck in purgatory.