Klee, Head of a Man Going Senile, 1922 (2021)

September 6, 2021 Klee, Head of a Man Going Senile, 1922 (2021)

This is the last (for now at least?) of my appropriation/transformation series. I made this one and two others (from Picasso and O’Keeffe paintings) to explore the ambiguous legal line that the U.S. court system (as well as Canada’s, England’s, and other nations’) continues to leave undefined when it comes to the (possible) fair use of images for new artworks. Klee’s painting is from 1922, so presumably beyond any copyright infringement statute.

And here are parts ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, and FIVE of my fair use musings.

[Update: SCOTUS ruled on May 18, 2023, which I discuss here.]

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