In my personal opinion, there is a legal rule: if you change 10% or more of an image you can call it your own and there is a common courtesy rule, you should not make images in a way that would lead others to believe that someone else's images are yours originally because of their style. I believe that emulation is great and I am a huge proponent of the pastiche as a stylistic choice, but to me there needs to be some spark from the artist. It is all good and well to simply copy the exact style of an image, but forgers or computer modeling programmes can do that — one needs to bring some unique element to the work, so they can, with hesitation, call the idea their own.
In my photography class, we were asked to find three different artist's to emulate. They could be from an style of photography or even form of artistic expression (i.e. sculpture, music, painting), they just had to be something that we could work with.
In order to have some point of reference for my emulation research, I decided to focus on the human body. Throughout history it has served as a source of fascination for artists in every genre, style and era. Because of this there is a huge variety in its interpretation in regards to both portrayal and form. For my three artist's I choose three radically different styles: Allen Teger's Bodyscapes Project, Peter Paul Rubens's painted nudes, and the sculptures of Michelangelo. Each one of these holds a very different potential for photographic emulation and each would be beautiful in their own way. Only pictures are displayed here but for more information on each artist, click their name.
Allen Teger's Bodyscapes:
Rubens's nudes:
Michelangelo's Sculptures:
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