In Megan Ga
rber article, "the most expensive GIF of all time is being sold for $5,800" examines the work of Jeff Koons and how Michael Green tried to us it online. Originally, Jeff Koons created an art piece titled Balloon Dog (Orange) which was being auctioned off at the Chistie's. The piece was eventually sold off for $58.4 million and at the time was considered one of the most expensive art pieces by a living artists until it was replaced by another piece by Jeff Koons titled Rabbit. Following this, Michael Green, another digital artists, copied Koons work on the Balloon Dog and made a multitude of them as layers to then combine them into a single GIF. Green would rename the piece, Balloon Dog Deflated" and auctioned it off on eBay for $2,000. Green waited and eventually saw that nobody wanted to pay a high amount of money for his work. So, Green would eventually increase the price to $5,800 and add a long description.
As far the reading goes, I find it interesting to see how easy it is to copy another persons work and brand it as your own. Many artists in general take inspiration from other works in order to help/improve their own but the line between taking inspiration and copying another work become very messy. I know I take a multitude of inspiration from comics and movies to help build upon my own craft but it does come up in my mind of when to stop using inspiration from other mediums and start creating my own original work.
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