Acclaimed Artist" Actually Just Stole Video Game Images

[OldJake666]

He copied from existing panels. If he made his own I would have no problem with it whatsoever.

This is Lichtenstein's:



And this is the original:



Obviously there are differences but that's the kind of thing that would have the art community pouncing all over him today.

Here's another one:

Lichtenstein's:



Original:



This is what the MOMA has to say about it:

Lichtenstein based many of his early paintings on imagery he found in comic books. The source for this work is Run for Love! published by DC Comics in 1962, the cover of which the artist significantly altered to arrive at the finished composition. In the original illustration, the drowning girl’s boyfriend appears in the background, clinging to a capsized boat. Lichtenstein cropped the image dramatically, showing the girl alone and encircled by a threatening wave. He changed the caption from “I don’t care if I have a cramp!” to “I don’t care!” and the boyfriend’s name from Mal to Brad. In addition to appropriating comic books’ melodramatic content, Lichtenstein manually simulated the Benday dots used in the mechanical reproduction of images.

Oh he cropped it and he changed the name, well that's not plagiarism then! *rolls eyes*

And I couldn't find anywhere that said that he paid or asked the original artists to use their work. He was never sued by the way. How he got away with that is way beyond me.