JimBowie1958
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This is absolutely not true. Good artists don't copy or immitate other painters, and especially they don't copy or immitate bad art. Z has done both with this 'paining.'
Good artists may be inspired by other artists, but they don't copy and immitate. Clearly, what you know about art could fit on the head of a pin.
Lol, oh, so it's 'inspiration' if you like the artist and copying if you don't?
Everyone imitates everyone else. They imitate each other via materials used, techniques used on the materials, subject matter is imitated and some are such minor variations on the whole package that it's debatable whether it is entirely imitation.
For how many centuries have people imitated the various mediums used, like stone sculpting? That is copying a technique.
Does the painter use a cubist style, then they imitate the founders of that school of art as well.
Imitation is FACT and the human mind is not quite so creative as some think, and creative in different ways of making variation and switching attributes only.
Compare these cubist paintings and tell me there is no heavy influences among them without lying.
https://www.google.com/search?q=pic...kAZSqsQT5wIGoCw&ved=0CCkQsAQ&biw=1555&bih=843
At least Zimmerman painted things that were easily recognizable as the subjects of his paintings and not some bad acid trip.
his flag painting is more art to me than anything that fraud Picasso or Pollok ever did.
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