Notions Of Originality

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This painting originally was created by a artist called Diego Velazquez, the painting itself is called Las Meninas which stands for The Maids Of Honour. The image shows a large room in the Madrid palace of King Phillip IV and in that room presents several figures from the spanish court. 


However the image that you are observing in front of you has totally been changed, recreated by another well known artist Pablo Picasso, who as you can see has taken his own twist if you like on Velazquez's original painting, Well you could argue the point that has Picasso copied the original concept, idea of the painting. well yes you could but the way i see it is that Picasso has taken the painting and transformed into its simplest form. Something on a whole new level. If you observed this image and did not know anything about it and you only was told it was created by Picasso you would straight away assume its his work he came up with the idea. 


As you start getting the information about image in more depth you start to realise Picasso was inspired, even influenced by Velazquez work and reconstructed his original painting Las Meninas to his own taste or in this case his style of work, by breaking it down into simple but yet very effective shapes which he does very well. i think its fine to be influenced to be inspired by other artists and their work so long as your using it for ideas for your work and using your own styles to create a image with a whole new and different meaning.