"Good artists copy; great artists steal." – Pablo Picasso
"Adequate artists cut and paste." – Nathan O. Stringer
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Photo of the Carter family with Marcel Marceau + a few other things on Mark Tobey – Written over the Plains [1950]
Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands on Sam Gilliam – Moon Tide [2021]
Painting of Æthelred the Unready on Giuseppe Penone – Pelle di grafite - riflesso di cuprite (Skin of graphite - reflections of Cuprite) [2008]
"Woman With Gold Chain on Neck Standing Near Hut" on Georgia O’Keeffe – The White Place in Sun [1943]
Engraving of a bull goring a bald man on Damien Hirst – Veil of Hidden Meaning [2017]
Engraved vignette of some dudes loading a cannon on Ralston Crawford – Kewalo Close-Up [1948]
Reverse of $2 (silver dollar) certificate on a Bridget Riley
Engraved vignette on Joan Mitchell – City Landscape [1955]
The Giving Tree, a gate to a Russian cathedral, and the ground of some Turkish hot springs on Frederick J. Brown – Milky Way [1977]
A mural on a dome in the Library of Congress on Lee Krasner – Siren [1966]
Louis-Michel le Peletier, engraving of an eagle, and Wasilly Kandinsky – Black Relationship [1924] on Maurice Denis – Ocean Coast [c. 1890s]
A woman from a stock photo and Super Mario Galaxy elements on Konstantin Korobov – Tenebris [2016]
Wasilly Kandinsky – Delicate Tension No. 85 [1923] on photo by Dmitriy Ganin
Chester Cheetah, Chuck E. Cheese, defenestrators of Prague, and populists per Puck on Wasilly Kandinsky – Untitled (Composition with Grey Background) [1941]
Shrek and a Shell Station on Edward Lear – Masada on the Dead Sea [1858] and Karl Friedrich Schinkel – The Magic Flute [1847-49]
Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558–1603) on Pablo Rey – Estados Complementarios #11 [2005]
Nathaniel Dance-Holland – Portrait of Jeremiah Meyer, R.A. [late 1760s]; Jan Davidsz. de Heem – Fruit Still Life [1650]; postcard of Hanging Gardens in Allentown, PA [1949]; all on Alexandra Luke – Symphony [1957]
Franklin the Turtle and an American Airlines jet on Mark Tobey – No Space Left [1965], contrast adjusted
Tony the Tiger on a color-skewed Alan Davie – Creation of Eve [1957]
Raisin Bran Sun on Edvard Munch – The Sun [1911]
Banjo-Kazooie on JonOne – acrylic on canvas
Toucan Sam on Alma Thomas – Light Blue Nursery [1968]
Minion on Wasilly Kandinsky – Yellow-Red-Blue [1925]
Jolly Green Giant on Piet Mondrian – Composition in Brown and Gray [1913]