Judges rarely be on the side of artists. Jeff Koons has already lost a similar case. If the authorities will pursue the auction, sellers and buyers, the art market appropriation art will cease to exist

the Controversial artist Jeff Koons, who heads world ranking of most expensive living artists, was again subjected to prosecute. New-йоркский photographer mitchel grey found that one of the paintings by Jeff Koons, titled I Could Go For Something, borrows the plot of the advertisement layout Gina Gordon's that the photographer did in the mid-1980-х. Permission to use the photo, no one asked. Finding that Koons painting was sold in 2008 to Phillips for $2 million, Mitchell grey, as is customary in these cases, "tasted the bitterness" and sued at all — on the artist at auction, and anonymous previous owner of the painting, which sold it at auction. Probably going back to the Hague Tribunal to declare, but apparently the lawyers advised against it.

For Jeff Koons, one of the key figures in appropriation art — strategy based on the borrowing advertising images, — such claims are common. As for Richard Prince. If an artist takes a photograph or a fragment of a photo of someone else's author to create an exaggerated sense of (the appropriation), is very vulnerable to disputes over copyright. Judges why-то not really delve into the artistic subtleties of the problem and therefore are rarely on the side of the artists. Koons has already been lost a similar case. Richard Prince, too. If things keep going and the judges will refuse to acknowledge new realities, one of the important radical directions in contemporary art will cease to exist for economic reasons. If the authorities will pursue the auction, buyers and sellers, appropriation art "will not fly", no one can mess with such things.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Source: reuters.com, theguardian.com, artinvestment.ru