AP Art-- reference pictures, how similar can it be before it's considered copying?

chisquared
Fri, 11 May 2007 09:44:47 +0000

College Board:

If you submit work that makes use of photographs, published images, and/or other artists’ works, you must show substantial and significant development beyond duplication. This may be demonstrated through manipulation of the formal qualities, design, and/or concept of the original work. It is unethical, constitutes plagiarism, and often violates copyright law to simply copy an image (even in another medium) that was made by someone else.



Since it IS allowed to use other artists’ works as refs, I thought it’d be okay.

Also, I do believe I manipulated the formal qualities such as value, line, color. I have a very particular style of oil painting, directly applying the paint to the canvas from the tube.

However, the concept is so similar!! They are both from the same perspective and both describe Atlantis-like underwater cosmopolitans.