Black Artist copies J.E.B stuart monument statue -

[mindlessobserver]

So a prominent black sculpture artist visits Richmond Virginia and sees the statue of Confederate Cavalry commander J.E.B stuart.
This at the height of the moral panic over confederate statures.

Original statue.

So he decides then and there he is going to make some protest art. Something truly visionary. Something to really start a conversation.

It's the exact same statue. Even the pose is the same. For the horse and the man on it to the fucking landscape its standing on. The angle is the same too. Or damn near to it.

But everyone claps. What does it mean? Is the new statue not plagiarism? Maybe it's a bold effort at replacing a racist symbol with a more woke alternative.

The more cynical observer will note however the very VERY big differences between the two. Bigger even then the race of the rider. The words on the plinth. The woke statue just reads "Rumor of War" and then puts the artists name in big bold letters. As if to say "Look at me! The virtuous artist!"

The original on the other hand gives the name of a soldier who was born in a nearby county and died at the age of 33 due to wounds he received in battle. His place of death was, incidentally a mere few city blocks from where the statue is now. No mention of the artist of the original statue.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

One was made as a war memorial, the other as a work of public art. Signing the former would be gauche, signing the latter is standard practice. You are looking for something to get mad about here.

 

[Exorbital Columnations]

As far as modern art goes it's a masterpiece. I especially like the fantastical nature of it; a black riding a horse? Simply mahhhhvelous.

 

[Dick Pooman]

The black guy looks like the middle linebacker for the Washington Redskins that was arrested twice for smacking his girlfriend in the mouth.

 

[mindlessobserver]

One was made as a war memorial, the other as a work of public art. Signing the former would be gauche, signing the latter is standard practice. You are looking for something to get mad about here.

I find plagiarism obnoxious in general. If I were to paint the mona lisa, only instead with an upside down smile I would not get everyone clapping like seals over it. The fact that such a low effort piece of complete plagiarism is getting sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, to the Virginia Fine Arts Museum no less is peak modern art. Not content with low effort trash that is at least original, we now have low effort copy cat works instead. And we all need to cheer because reasons

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

I find plagiarism obnoxious in general. If I were to paint the mona lisa, only instead with an upside down smile I would not get everyone clapping like seals over it. The fact that such a low effort piece of complete plagiarism is getting sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, to the Virginia Fine Arts Museum no less is peak modern art. Not content with low effort trash that is at least original, we now have low effort copy cat works instead. And we all need to cheer because reasons

You have to take into account that these are people who take sound samples from other, popular songs, swear over them and call it music.

 

[Koresh]

Eh, this stuff happens all the time in the art community. There's always """homages"" that are direct rips of other work. Look at Kehinde Wiley's rip of "Femme Piquee par un Serpent" or her rip of "Napoleon Crossing the Alps"





Not to mention the thousands of rips of Da Vinci's Last Supper. Nowadays in the "fine" art world, even outright swiping is allowed. In classes, students will turn in traced work. It's scummy, I agree, and it does seem that the only artists who get praised for it are POC artists which has some unfortunate implications.

But honestly not a new thing nor a big deal. The statue will be gone soon.

Edit: There's another black woman artist whose name I forgot who prints out pictures of famous landscapes of America then spray paints all over them and sells them for millions. She had a huge ass installation in NYC I think. Anyone know who I'm talking about?

 

[Exorbital Columnations]

Even the pose is the same

... No, it's not. The new one is a more heroic pose with the chest thrust out, shoulders back, right elbow crooked, chin higher etc.

The old one is more casual, even weary-looking.

 

[Marco Fucko]

Now if we could just get the Rape of Persephone with a nigger as Hades we could call this a party

 

[DragoonSierra]

I find plagiarism obnoxious in general. If I were to paint the mona lisa, only instead with an upside down smile I would not get everyone clapping like seals over it. The fact that such a low effort piece of complete plagiarism is getting sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, to the Virginia Fine Arts Museum no less is peak modern art. Not content with low effort trash that is at least original, we now have low effort copy cat works instead. And we all need to cheer because reasons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.H.O.O.Q.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F._Walker#Walker's_L.H._Double_O.Q.

 

[millais]

NB Forrest > JO Shelby > J Morgan > JEB Stuart > J Wheeler

 

[Coach Kreeton Of All That]

Gonna have to call this a tribute. Nothing seems to be ripping on the original if the guy studied enough detail on the post of the J.E.B. Stuart statue.

 

[3119967d0c]

I agree that this is not highly sophisticated, but it's kind of cool in its own right. At least he isn't directly shitting on brave men as his kinsfolk and their Zionist masters do when they vandalise graves and remove statues.

 

[AnOminous]

I agree that this is not highly sophisticated, but it's kind of cool in its own right. At least he isn't directly shitting on brave men as his kinsfolk and their Zionist masters do when they vandalise graves and remove statues.

Lol while people are freaking the fuck out about a Confederate general statue and screaming to tear it down, he puts a nearly identical copy in Times fucking Square.

That's trolling.

 

[a feel]

I find plagiarism obnoxious in general. If I were to paint the mona lisa, only instead with an upside down smile I would not get everyone clapping like seals over it. The fact that such a low effort piece of complete plagiarism is getting sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, to the Virginia Fine Arts Museum no less is peak modern art. Not content with low effort trash that is at least original, we now have low effort copy cat works instead. And we all need to cheer because reasons

Dude, grab that bull by the horns. Are you black or brown? If not, you can probably still pull it off by claiming to be the wokest of the wokes. Paint a black Mona Lisa and sell it.
I'm sure it has already been done, but I don't care enough to even google it.

 

[a feel]

... No, it's not. The new one is a more heroic pose with the chest thrust out, shoulders back, right elbow crooked, chin higher etc.

The old one is more casual, even weary-looking.

Sorry for double posting.
You know, it just ocurred to me that those two statues go so very well together. The newer one depicts a young man ready and excited to go to war. The original statue is the aftermath, so to say. The reality of a man who went to war and became the hero the young boy so desperately wanted to be. Where is the young boy? Probably dead.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.H.O.O.Q.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F._Walker#Walker's_L.H._Double_O.Q.

Comparing some nigger artist in 2019 with Marcel Duchamp in 1903 definitely makes sense.

 

[Shaved Kiwis]

As far as modern art goes it's a masterpiece. I especially like the fantastical nature of it; a black riding a horse? Simply mahhhhvelous.

Spoiler: It's been done before

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

Now if we could just get the Rape of Persephone with a nigger as Hades we could call this a party
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That's a brilliant sculpture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_Proserpina

Look at the detail in the way Hades/Pluto's hands sink into her flesh. I can't imagine how hard it would be to carve that into marble with 1621 technology.

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

That said this is really low quality plagiarism.