Original Art is not a copy.

 

We can all be influenced and inspired by great Art and admire great Artists, but that does not mean we should be their clones, our desire must be to seek out the new and challenging and create our own new original work and push the boundaries of Art.

Create beautiful original paintings, that's got to better than being a copy of someone else.

A copy, no matter how well it is painted and it can be painted even better than the original, but it can never be an original painting ever, it is destined to always be a factory copy and no more.

Now just because these copies sell does not make them legitimate Art, no it just means that someone bought them. They can call it Art if they want but it is not Art it is a copy and fake.

You can cut a cow in half and call it Art but that does not make it Art, it’s just a cow cut in half. You can spread old rags around the gallery and call it Art, but it is not Art it’s old rags spread around a room.

Art is something that comes from within, it’s not designed to shock and tantalise, it is designed to move peoples emotions, to touch their inner soul, to change them for the better.

People are moved by Picasso’s “ Guernica” and Rothko’s “ Black paintings” in the Rothko Chapel and they move people to tears, this is what great Art does, copying them will never capture the true essence of being the original Artist.

Whatever you paint if it is yours, your original Art no matter how complex or simple, if it is born out of you, it is Art.

Art is personal, it is alive and comes fresh from a real Artist.

If you paint landscapes, then make them your landscapes, if you paint portraits, then make them your portraits, seascapes or abstracts, paint them as only you can paint them.

Original Art is your vision, your original thought, your feelings, your emotions expressed on paper or canvas or in whatever medium that you work in.

Great original Art comes from the personal struggle of sharing your vision of your world in your Art for the world to see.

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