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  • From: Margaret Campbell <margaretc AT gmail.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: analog rights management vigilantes in Raleigh
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:12:08 -0500

No, it didn't. Tried it several times.

But, being a reader of the papers, I already knew the story.


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:58:03 -0500, grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Umm, yes it does. But in the interest of actually moving things along,
> here:
>
> Young Prospective Artist Finds Herself in a 'No Sketch' Zone
> Second grader Julia Illana
> By Don Ross
> (01/07/05 - RALEIGH) — It is standard operating procedure for students
> of art to learn by example by sketching masterpieces in an art museum.
>
> A budding artist in Durham found that the time honored tradition was
> challenged while seeking inspiration at the Matisse, Picasso and the
> School of Paris: Masterpieces from the Baltimore Museum of Art exhibit
> in Raleigh.
>
> Over the weekend at the North Carolina Museum of Art there were works by
> Matisse, Picasso, Monet, Degas and some Illanas.
>
> Julia Illana is a second grader who was visiting the popular exhibit
> there with her parents and was sketching the paintings in her notebook.
>
> "I love to draw in my notebook," Illana said.
>
> Her sketch of Picasso's Woman with Bangs, which came out pretty good,
> and Matisse's Large Reclining Nude got the promising artist into trouble
> with museum security.
>
> A museum guard told Julia's parents that sketching was prohibited
> because the great masterpieces are copyright protected, a concept that
> young Julia did not understand until her mother explained the term.
>
> "If you wrote a book and someone saw that book and copied it," Julia's
> mother said. "Then people would think that that person was the one who
> wrote the book when you were the actual one."
>
> Actually, the museum guard was mistaken. There was no copyright issue,
> and the museum apologizes and is telling artists to sketch away as long
> as they do not interrupt the flow of traffic in the always crowded gallery.
>
> Julia admits that she's not ready to show her artwork anyway.
>
> "I wouldn't publish my notebook with the sloppy writing," she giggled.
>
> Although her renditions of Hole in Hand and Pink Ghost are pretty
> impressive for a six-year-old.
>
> Assured now that it is OK to sketch, Julia's going back on Sunday to try
> her hand at a CeZanne, and maybe a Matisse or two.
>
> More than 88,000 people have visited the exhibit scheduled to end
> January 16.
>
> Online Producer: Chris J. Nicolini
>
> Margaret Campbell wrote:
> > Umm, the link doesn't work....
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:05:30 -0500, bendy <bendy AT duke.edu> wrote:
> >
> >>And while you're at it, stop humming that song in your head, unless
> >>you've bought a copy!
> >>
> >>http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/news/010705_NW_sketcher.html
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> >
> >
> >
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--mjc




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