re: #358 mje1

Plagiarism is still plagiarism, and this is not a homage or “inspired” by Matisse. It’s a traced copy, for goodness sake. What I’d like to know is, who decided that this cheap copy belonged in a National museum? ;-)

Uh, no, it isn’t a “traced copy,” and it isn’t plagiarism. You can read a detailed history of the work and it’s derivation in the exhibition catalog linked in this thread’s headliner. Or you could attempt to do more than glance at the pair for more than a microsecond after letting Michelle Malkin tell you what to see and think and simply note that fact that your claim is silly beyond belief.

As for why this and other pieces of the artist’s work belong in a national museum, the exhibition catalog also does an excellent job of detailing that, as well. It is several paragraphs long, however, and takes more than 10 seconds to read through, especially if the reader attempts comprehension at the same time. And there’s no blog or cartoon version available to simplify it for those who find actual understanding difficult.