Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Some copy cats have nine lives - with prizes.
Colin Hay gets done in court for nicking a couple of notes from "Kookaburra sits on an old gum tree".
OTOH Sam Leach wins the Wynne prize and has a raft of luminaries defending his unattributed *referencing*.
Double dutch: scandal rocks Wynne painting prize
And how does *referencing* of a 1660 Dutch painting in anyway fulfill this criteria. "According to the AGNSW, the Wynne Prize is "awarded to what the judges consider to be the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours". It isn't even a *referencing* of an Australian landscape painting. I don't think there were that many Dutch daubers knocking out postcards of the great brown land girt by sea back in 1660.
It also seems that the Oz's national Arts Writer Michaela Boland was away on the day her school did Julia's grammar lessons.
"Leach, an emerging Australian artist recently compared with Brett Whiteley and William Dobell."
UPDATE. Having just read a unassailable defence by the artist I hereby withdraw anything which might be construed as being even mildly critical.
"Leach says the painting is not the same. For one thing, he says, his is a fifth the size of Pynacker's work. He has also removed a number of the original pastoral features of the painting and replaced them with something decidedly more contemporary."
Sam, a word from the wise. "When you find yourself in a hole or are found with your hand in a cookie jar, stop digging."Labels: Who's kidding whom?
WTF! Sam Leach claims the Wynne prize and has a boatload of luminaries defending his unattributed *referencing*.
n.b. This comment is not plagiarising Sedgwick's original blog. It's quite different and completely original, according to my lawyers.
That's not to say I'm not fond of old masters, I mean, I like yerself and in a pinch, Hughes.
I'm giving the Mona Lisa a go.
Or maybe I'll just pinch it.
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