Miffy Duck's collection of works of art appeared for teaching, and the guide to the collection of works of art [White Whoring]. On January 1, Feng Feng, a professor of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, held an exhibition of the works "Duck and Rabbit New Year's Day". Half a month later, he was suspected of plagiarism, The image of duck and rabbit is highly similar to the classic cartoon Miffy Rabbit . As the event fermented, it suddenly triggered a lot of public opinion, and everyone paid special attention to this matter.

What happened?

Recently, there has been a scandal of plagiarism among two companies?

It has spread all over the design circle, art circle and even entertainment circle

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So what happened?

In response, Professor Feng Feng said that it was not plagiarism, but the use of public commercial symbols for artistic re creation. But some people still think that he is plagiarism; Some people think that adding a duck's beak is a personal creation; Some people even say that the art circle itself is suspected of copying and white whoring In a word, the discussion of this topic is still controversial.

In fact, plagiarism and copying in the art circle is a relatively complex concept, which is not only the discussion of techniques and aesthetic aspects, but also the understanding of contemporary art for recreation and the importance of copying as an artistic technique. Copying can even be called "the source of artistic creation".

But how to define copying and plagiarism? Natural light will take this as the topic today, and we will discuss the copying and plagiarism in the creation of those works, and teach you how to really go whoring!

　　 No.1 How to distinguish plagiarism from reference?

No matter what the situation is, "plagiarism" often occurs, even in our overseas study circle, especially in the creation of works. Although it is necessary to refer to some excellent collections of works, many people will find it difficult to distinguish between the concepts of reference and plagiarism. A successful collection of "white whoring inspiration" is a good reference, while a bad one is plagiarism.

In the relatively free field of art, art is a creation that does not mix with any distractions and is not affected by the views of others. If art is labeled as "plagiarism", it has deviated from art itself After all, a real artwork should not be copied.

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From another point of view, in the contemporary context of information circulation, "knowledge sharing" has also become a creative source of new levels, Therefore, contemporary artists themselves no longer have completely separated independent resources and experience Therefore, there is the voice of "copying in the art circle".

Natural light student art works collection

The same is true of our international students when they create. Because we want to stand out from the eyes of the college admissions officers, and because of the high degree of discussion on good topics, students are easy to choose similar angles and forms of creation, but If you don't grasp the standard, it is easy to directly convert copying into plagiarism How to learn from factors correctly is the lesson we need to dig deeply.

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First of all, no matter what kind of concept of creation, it is difficult to distinguish the relationship between "reference" and "plagiarism", First of all, reference is not copying or copying The real reference is to add your own thinking and creativity on the basis of original expression techniques and image display, and then build a new work.

Natural light trainees Art sample reels

That is to say, before deciding to use a certain creation for reference, the first thing is to have your own design ideas and creative thinking, which is also the key to use for reference, This premise is an important stage in the creation to distinguish from other designs.

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Reference and plagiarism also have differences in nature due to different objects. This difference is the difference between design and art, or the difference between commercial and non-commercial. Design works usually have practical value and commercial interests, and seek to be understood and accepted by the public; On the contrary, artistic creation should be absolutely free.

Student works of natural light

From the perspective of our collection creation, it is artistic creation in some way, so artistic creation cannot be completely copied. We can find a form or creativity to use for reference through other people's works, but then we need to extend it into our own style according to new ideas. What we use for reference must be a small part of your whole work, which does not affect your complete ideas and subjective expression to the admissions officer.

After talking about plagiarism and reference, it will be difficult to get out of the fixed thinking circle if we play freely on the premise of reference. There is a set of works for reference as a template, so it is easy to be locked in the original design ideas, so it is easy to turn reference into plagiarism. So, how to correctly learn the element "white whoring" from your own creation?

　　 No.2 Correct reference mode

　　 The second creation of inspiration

Before creation, collect a large number of excellent work information, extract core elements, and then combine freely according to inspiration and design thinking, so as to truly bring great value into play. If you browse the artists' classic works with the theme of "reference" Can be convinced by the ingenuity behind the works.

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Artists from London Rosanna Webster She is a talented person in the second creation of inspiration. She is good at disassembling the artistic elements in the original works, observing from various perspectives, and thinking about whether she can use different materials to create new patterns.

He has cooperated with various enterprises, including Dior, Stella McCartney, GIVENCHY and other brands, as well as well-known magazines such as Vogue Paris and Harper's Bazaar, and his inspiration has been used for reference.

For example, the original magazine cover background is replaced with elements that are unconstrained, and the original scene is directly replaced with a new scene, which is refreshing, There are even surprises beyond the original effect 。

Rosanna Webster's second creation

When creating illustrations for the brand catwalk, She doesn't combine random images Instead, it extracts the patterns and silhouettes of models from the places and fashions related to the big show, and even looks for appropriate film clips as inspiration sources, which is equivalent to concentrating the essence of the target customers in the microscopic images.

Rosanna Webster x Dior Magazine

For creators, this process of remodeling is more like a "game" in a sense, Create more concrete fun in the process of reorganization In fact, secondary inspiration creation does not need to follow a certain theme or central idea. Any instantaneous idea can be poured into it without restriction.

Where does inspiration come from? For photographers John Stezaker In this way, for artists who use old photos as secondary creation, perhaps the inspiration is endless. There is no need to place expectations on deliberately adding new photos. There are countless combinations of materials alone.

John Stezaker's second creation

The topic of secondary creation returning to inspiration does not only exist in the art or fashion circles, but also in our collection of works. When referring to other people's excellent works, How to extract wonderful elements and think about them is the key.

　　 Cross disciplinary theme reference

If you want to properly avoid the concept of plagiarism, students should The importance of learning from interdisciplinary, even cross-border elements for improving thinking.

Taking the collection of students' works of natural light as an example, student X successfully learned from the retro elements of the last century, Ways to integrate organs, medicine, psychology and materials , showing the collection of works in a higher dimension. On the contrary, it is difficult to make your own works if you just focus on "retro elements".

Therefore, it is suggested that students can Enlarge the reference professional area and boldly combine The remodeled works may also have different results. However, the natural light needs to remind students to also pay attention to the risk of "cross-border transition", and to reasonably integrate and innovate on the premise of learning from elements.

　　 Unique form/theme reference

　　 Whether the creation of form/theme must follow the spirit of the original work and follow the ideas of the original work? There are some different opinions here. When an excellent collection of works is created, whether it is used by others for any purpose or not, its quality is actually defined by colleges and universities.

Works of Xie from SVA Pure Art Major

Therefore, students are easily attracted by a specific form/theme when browsing other people's work collection cases. However, due to the difference in the degree of thinking, before completely independent thinking, It is difficult to break away from the original thinking of the work And turn reference into plagiarism.

Works of Xie from SVA Pure Art Major

The most important consideration for students here is to find more levels of perspectives and entry points. On the basis of integrating the original works, they can look at their own forms and reference factors with a more novel perspective, so as to extend the solutions after thinking, Extract elements that fit the theme and have unique characteristics from them and transform them into their own works 。

　　 summary

Finally, all walks of life have cases of plagiarism due to unreasonable reference, and the public opinion on plagiarism has never stopped. In fact, excellent second creation works are also a kind of unique existence. Don't rush to suppress second creation out of love for the original works, nor do you need to belittle the original because of the brilliance of second creation. This requires students to put the two on the same level for objective evaluation, so that they can really see those valuable things and learn from them reasonably.

But students Attention should be paid when learning from factors One thing is that overseas colleges and universities are too strict and systematic in their standards for collections of works, and they pay more attention to the exhibition of collections of works while focusing on research. Therefore, no matter where the inspiration comes from, they must not homogenize the content of works without logic.

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