[Tunehead54]

Very nice but see my #168 - side by side the Matisse clearly has curves in some shapes that cannot be matched by rotating and re-sizing - still a very nice graphic. Do you think it looks like a tracing style copy? I can see a tracing being done and some of the original curves being “straightened out” when going from shape edge to edge ... ;-)

[Brian C. Ledbetter]

Sure, like I said in my post, I wouldn't necessarily call it an out-and-out "copy." It's just heavily based upon the original—so much so that the elements are laid out in the exact same positions.

I'm not trying to disparage Thomas. If her original intent was to comment upon Matisse's work, then it's legitimate artistic pursuit, and there isn't anything inherently "wrong" about it (though I would tend to call it somewhat "lazy.")

On the other hand, if she set out to do a work exactly like Matisse's just because "that old man" could do it, we're starting to enter a more questionable realm. But still: She's been dead for quite some time now. It really is a moot point, as far as I'm concerned.

And hey:—Modern art gave us a painting of a Campbell's soup can. As art. What in the heck is original in that whole field, anyway?

Regards,
Brian