Controversial Art

As part of an experiment, and hopefully to cause some debate, I have created the pictures below. I like to think that they are original in design and unique. Before scolling down, I would appreciate it if you could formulate some opinion on the work...

Now I will show you some of the earlier work in this series and you may recognise my source of inspiration. However, at what point does the new image become unique. I have created more images based on these concepts from different artists. All of the images on this page are digitally sampled from Andy Warhol’s famous work of the Campbell Soup Cans (1962). However, in the first three images not one pixel remains in the same place - so it can be argued that not one of these images is a direct copy, even though the third image (below) may be recognisable.

It is not uncommon for major controversies to develop in all walks of life if a person attempts to replicate some work of art, idea or design of another persons; which is why laws are in place to prevent this activity. These arguments were familiar with audio duplication starting in the 90s, but to my knowledge have not been investigated in the Art world. There is obviously some point at which the art work is unrecognisable from the original, even though it was digitally sampled in the beginning.

For the picture on the left, about 10% of the original image was left intact. It should be noted that the orginal image that was used to create these daughter images contained all of Warhol’s original 32 paintings of the tins of soup, which of course were copies of the original soup can! I believe that Campbell never received any payment. Comments on the taste of the Cheddar Cheese Soup gratefully received.

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