Artistic Ethics
Community roundtable on copying and mechanical aids
A painter named Konstantin Kryzhitsky (1858-1911) took his own life when it was revealed that he copied from a photo.
Konstantin Kryzhitsky, Early Snow, 1895, 28” x 45”
According to art historian Natalya Gorlenko: "It turned out that Kryzhitsky used a still [photograph] in his painting called “A Whiff of Spring.”
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