A Chinese artist and academic has painted himself into a pickle with art lovers who have accused him of plagiarising cultural icons.
But the artist, Feng Feng, a professor at one of China’s top fine-art academies, has hit back at critics, saying the works achieved his goal of getting people to talk about art.
Feng stands accused of plagiarising Miffy, the world-famous cartoon rabbit created by a Dutch artist in 1955.
But he refuses to apologize for putting a duck’s beak on the cultural icon in his “Rabbitduck” series.
“Plagiarism and appropriation represent two different attitudes,” Feng told Inkstone.
“Those who plagiarise often try to hide the original by making changes to it, and they
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Jan 27, 2021