Category: Art plagiarism

• A touchy topic: artistic theft and copying.

  Just a short rant here. The literary and painting traditions have long been based upon following trends, styles and forms of expression in each successive epoch, and many art academies and literature arts schools are still recommending that students study and mimic famous artists and writers in order to better understand painting and writing. Eventually […]

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  September 6, 2018

  Adam Donaldson Powell as visual artist, Adam’s thoughts about this, that and the other, Art plagiarism

  Adam about painting, Adam Donaldson Powell, Art copiers, Art plagiarism

• NEW: Rant and quotes about art and literature …

  “There is no perfection in art. By definition art is planned imperfection, and sometimes mistakes reinterpreted into a new vision. Nothing in Nature is composed of straight lines but yet Nature is always perfect. The artist is always making conscious and unconscious decisions about straight lines or not, and many other questions. That is the […]

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  September 6, 2018

  About writing, Adam Donaldson Powell, Adam’s thoughts about this, Art, Art and social change, Art fraud, Art plagiarism

  Adam Donaldson Powell as book author, Adam Donaldson Powell as visual artist, Quotes about art and literature, The state of art and literature today

• Links to four interesting articles related to the business (commercialization) of art.

  I have editorialized on the topics of digitalization, fame-hype, book publishing, art copying/stealing and more as regards both art and literature, for many years. Therefore, no comments this time. Read the links and decide for yourselves what you think, as artists and/or art-lovers and collectors: On investing in art Art copying for profit and fun […]

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  August 6, 2018

  Adam’s thoughts about this, that and the other, Art, Art fraud, Art plagiarism

  Adam about painting, Art copying and fraud, The business of art