How meme culture and a landmark legal case against an artist in Germany may loosen Europe’s tight copyright regulations:
garnered more than 20,000 likes and the Berlin-based painter said he became the subject of harassment. A lawsuit filed by a U.K. artist who claimed to be the person behind the original image followed.
The art of pastiche, which means an artistic work that imitates the style of another , is actually rarely absent from any popular figurative art movement. The Dadaists were among the first in the West to actively borrow from the world around them. Their ideas later found renewed rigor with artists like Sturtevant, who made copies of Modernist icons. More recently, U.S. artist Christine Wang has been creating works that borrow from memes.
Eder, who has been active since the 1980s, has built a devout following, especially among German and other European collectors for his meticulous oil paintings that blend incongruous aesthetics. His work is now the subject of a large retrospective exhibition titled “Moloch” at the Kunstsammlung Museen Augburg that includes more than 50 artworks from private collections .
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