“I didn’t know I was doing anything wrong. I saw it on Instagram and didn’t know who did it.”
So, then it’s yours, right? You friggin idiot.
Shortly after Devins finished the mural last Friday, criticism began bubbling up online. People accused him of copying the image from Rhode Island art student Gelila Mesfin, who had posted a nearly identical portrait of Michelle Obama on Instagram last year.
Shortly after Devins finished the mural last Friday, criticism began bubbling up online. People accused him of copying the image from Rhode Island art student Gelila Mesfin, who had posted a nearly identical portrait of Michelle Obama on Instagram last year.
News of the mural’s existence came as a huge surprise to Mesfin, too.
“How can you just steal someone’s artwork… someone’s hard work and claim it like it’s yours…” she wrote Saturday in an Instagram post.
“How can you go on record and say you designed this… this is so disheartening and so disrespectful on so many levels…” Mesfin added. “It’s one thing to share or even profit from someone’s work but to claim it as yours is just wrong!”
In an interview Tuesday with CNN, Devins denied any wrongdoing. He said he didn’t know who Mesfin was prior to last week and only learned of her artwork after someone on Instagram notified him of her accusations.
“I credited Ms. Mesfin for her work immediately. I’ve taken the heat and will gladly do so as long as the kids have a mural they can look up to,” he said.
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The art would be me painting over it.
Who looks up to a mural?
Dianny,
Musloids, of course.
I’m glad to see plagiarism happen on the left. I hope the originator is able have the wall white washed.
Is that Moosei’maman?
And how much you wanna bet they’re ok with stealing free downloaded music?
It’s Cleopootra
Glad to see her adams apple is covered up.
This version is “far” more favorable than the real life subject.
It almost makes her look tolerable (if you didn’t know her).
That wall wasn’t wide enough for full body composition.
“Chris Devins’ mural is based on a work by Galila Mesfin that was based on a photo by Collier Schoor.”
Didn’t Shepard Fairy get sued for doing what Mesfin did?
That picture looks like it could be the love child of Mooch Obama and Jane Fonda.
America’s Warrior Princess whose bell is rung by her own Clapper.
Nefretiti with an unseen boob belt….
Digital Art meets The Wall
Ouch! That hurt….
First off, one has to have more than a few screws loose to paint the Mooch so idealistically, though possibly with her own arrogant approval.
There is no ‘secondly’.
Andy Worhal had a tomato soup can and Mesfin had somebody else’s photograph….imagine what they could have done with a bag of cedar mulch…
ummmm…who looks up to a giant Tranny mural?
Jackson Pollock dribbled paint on a drop-cloth and bamboozled the whole (f)art world for generations.
The Shpinx
Isn’t that one of the bad guys in the “Stargate” movie?
Mooch looks very turd world dragon lady in that mural. She looks like she’s ready to have one of her hand servants beheaded for buffing her nails wrong.
It needs a mustache
with mooch you kind of want to stop at the shoulders
cause you dont have enough paint or building to finish
Wow! What great attention to detail. The original artist even included Mooch’s five o’clock shadow in their work.
No body who stole that could be considered an art thief in any sense of the word, performing a public service, absolutely!
No body who stole that could be considered an art thief in any sense of the word, performing a public service, absolutely! Cleaning up graffiti certainly.
Makes me want to join with the monkeys and fling poo at it!
They can’t even art the ugly scowl off Michael’s ugly mug.
The “image depicts…as an Egyptian queen”. I see the left still refuses to believe OR is trying to change history; ATTENTION LEFTISTS: Egyptians used sub-Saharan Africans as slaves NOT royalty! Sorry to burst your bubble, but this alleged art depicts “cultural appropriation” (I’m sure you recognize your own term).
@refuse/resist LOL!
Nice sideburns
“It’s Cleopootra”
That’s golden. That there’s funny. I don’t care who you are!
I see she has a nice codpiece for her adams apple
That’s a man. baby!
I though it was just decoration on the walls of Joliet Prison…..
The Sphinxter
Well, at least they drew her eyebrows on correctly this time.
In just about any other city that would be considered graffiti.
Is that supposed to be O.J.?
Moon bat feathers.
The Stinx.
I thought it was the chick from the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Her dick is bigger than Baracks.
They got the asshole smug attitude look down
right, din’t they?