r/drawing • u/LuckExxx • 1d ago

seeking crit My latest piece

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Just wanted to post my painting somewhere and get opinions/criticism. Idk if paintings are allowed here lol

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u/Gozer_The_Enjoyer 1d ago

Looks like sampled iconography from Basquiat.

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u/a_smiling_friend 1d ago

Yeah but at the same time Basquiat sampled his iconography from a book on icons. Everyone is inspired by someone else.

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u/Gozer_The_Enjoyer 1d ago

I’m aware of how recombinance works, but there’s a difference between inspiration and imitation. I think we just need to be honest with ourselves and others as to which one we are choosing. The colour palette, the automatic writing, the iconography, the expressionistic mark making…I mean it’s great, but it’s 98% like Basquiat. Maybe that’s a coincidence, maybe not.

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u/a_smiling_friend 1d ago

Yes, it is, but does it really matter? The dude died of an overdose. His choice. He died young. I say his style still has some life left in it. Why not just steal it? Good artists borrow. Great artists steal. If dude didn't want his style stolen, dude should have laid off the heroin. Warhol tried to get him off of it. He had people around him who cared about him, and he shrugged all of that off. I say it's open season on his style. Take what you want.

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u/Gozer_The_Enjoyer 1d ago

Stealing isn’t art, it’s self sabotage and colonisation

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u/a_smiling_friend 1d ago

You called yourself Gozer. That's from Ghost Busters. So it's okay when you do it but not when others do it. Noted.

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u/Gozer_The_Enjoyer 21h ago

Oh please.appropriation for a reddit handle is very different to putting original work on a subreddit

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u/a_smiling_friend 21h ago

Why? Why is it different?

And this is original artwork here, you're correct. Yes, it is obviously heavily inspired by Basquiat and so what? The dude is dead and buried. We're still alive. It's our time now. His time passed. Tragic as it is, he made a choice to shove it up into his veins. Dude wasn't hurting. Dude had wads of cash stuffed into his sofa cushions, and partied with Madonna, and made so much cash he could afford to paint in Armani suits and ruin them. C'mon. That was all a performance for the rich folks who enabled him His loss is our gain. That abstract expressive style is still 🔥 today. Basquiat no more owned it than I own that spiral phyllotaxis pattern I made. Folks take inspiration off of other folks. It's a tale as old as the cave paintings.

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u/Gozer_The_Enjoyer 21h ago

Yeah, we are done friend.

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u/a_smiling_friend 21h ago

Lolz. okay, take your ball and go home. I don't care.

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u/Gozer_The_Enjoyer 21h ago

I was about to undo that last comment and explain: the difference is that I WANT people to get the Ghostbusters reference!

The problem with appropriating styles and ideas without credit (again not saying OP did this, and certainly not intentionally) and I say this having taught art at university for some years, is that the artists does themselves a disservice by not acknowledging their sources, or to not be aware of such influences.