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When Images Refuse Ownership
The history of modern art repeatedly demonstrates a stubborn truth: no image can ever be owned absolutely. Forms circulate, poses migrate, gestures recur, and meanings survive only insofar as they continue to work on people. Copyright, originality, and authorship may function as legal or institutional devices, but aesthetically they are always provisional. What ultimately matters is not where an image comes from, but whether it generates a lived response — a mood, a tension, a sense of story. Few contemporary paintings illustrate this more clearly than The Singing Butler (1992) by Jack Vettriano, a work that has become both one of the most reproduced images in Britain and one of the most contested.
By Peter Ayolovabout 3 hours ago in Art
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