Lemme put it this way- it is NO different than a person who goes to the exact same locations as Ansel Adams and takes photos with the exact same equipment and then processes the photos in the exact same manner claiming he is an ‘artist’
Or someone copying Georgia O’Keefe’s flower paintings and claiming they are an artist-
While someone needs skill to replicate other people’s works=- they certainly are NOT originality and lack the creative genius of the original artists
Those who can create original thoughts ideas and concepts are successful artists, those who can’t copy and hope to get by on the tailcoats of masters
I think that Dali said:
The first man who compared a woman to a rose was obviously a poet and the second one to do so is an idiot.