Gi Joe Plays Rubens: Simply Is It Art?

Ananova reports that a Chilean artist, Pablo Ferrer, has opened an exhibition inward which he recreates famous paintings alongside plastic toys. He uses toys from the GI Joe hit - the the US equivalent of the European Action Man - to recreate masterpieces past times the likes of Rubens. He says his ‘Liliput to Brobdingnag’ exhibition, at the Gabriela Mistral Gallery, is intended to live humorous. Mr Ferrer told Las Ultimas Noticias: "I recall that my operate has something funny near it because it shows an ironic persuasion on the history of art. Also it makes yous recall near the phoney side of the paintings".

wonders whether the selection of Old Masters such every bit Rubens was dictated past times a fearfulness of copyright infringement if the plant of modern artists were treated inward the same manner. Having seen the illustrations on the Ananova site, he is quite unsure every bit to whether in that place is sufficient copying to back upwards an infringement claim.

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