But there is theft ... and theft
I just signed up ... what a wonderful initiative. Before immersing myself in the tutorials, I just want to say that I think the question of theft is a tricky one. I agree that, as artists--or potential artists--our goal is absolutely not to turn out copies of other people's works. However, the example of Bach always comes to mind. When he was young, he severely injured his eyesight (in later years he went blind) by copying out the works of earlier masters (Vivaldi, Monteverdi, etc.) by moonlight. To learn from them. To understand what made their music work, or where it fell short ... and then he went on to create his own music, unquestionably a step ahead of what had gone before him.
So, I believe that if we "copy" with this spirit, to get to know the existing limits of our materials in order to push them forward, it's not a bad thing. Just my 2 cents.
- Copying the work of others is fine as long as it remains a learning exercise. It's passing the art off as one's own that is reprehensible.
We copy other people's work to experience their techniques, their brush-strokes, their turn-of-phrase, their creative choices. By studying their artistic voice, we hone ours. However, even as a learning exercise, copying work is not without risk. Once we have absorbed someone else's way of doing things, we cannot unlearn. We cannot forget. For better or worse, that “someone else” will have woven their way into our artistic neurons. Deciding who we let inside our head is a matter of creative choice and defines us as artists, just as much as the choices of colour, form, and line we make at the bench.
imho
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A workplace from which to share ... hopefully it will be less cluttered than my work table at home.
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