Week 6: response to The Ecstasy of Influence (Moon) – Susie

This article is talking about plagiarism from a very interesting perspective. The author points out that some great artists say that they also admit they may borrow something from other people’s work. And the important thing is how to judge the plagiarism. Since when we want to start our project, we also go to the website and find some inspiration from other people’s results. In the article, the author takes cartoons as an example that there is a very common debate on the nature of cartoon, which is “animation is built on plagiarism”. But the question is that the animation has to do that. If there is not the original version, how can the animation imitate and reproduce the work? And what impressed me most is the sentence “most artists are converted to art by art itself”. That makes me think about the questions that the most important thing for art is its content and meaning. Although the artists borrow something from other people, the most impressive and successful thing is still created by the artists themselves.

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