Recently, an article titled “Exposure of beautiful painters, the chairman of the Qinghai Art Association, the youngest director of the Chinese Art Association suspected of plagiarism for several years? On March 26, Wang Xiaoli, president of the Qinghai Artists Association, admitted to plagiarizing a number of paintings by artist Ma Hansong and apologized, which sparked heated debate among netizens.
Comprehensive media reports, recently, “Exposure of beautiful painters, the chairman of the Qinghai Art Association, the youngest Chinese Art Association director suspected of plagiarism for several years?” The article made it to the hot search. The article compared the paintings of Wang Xiaoli, the president of the Qinghai Artists Association, and Ma Hansong, the artist, questioning Wang Xiaoli’s plagiarism of Ma Hansong’s works, which are almost identical except for the inscriptions and tones.
On the afternoon of March 26, Wang Xiaoli, chairman of the Qinghai Art Association and a beautiful painter, spoke out for the first Time after being questioned about the alleged plagiarism and admitted to plagiarism. She also said that the plagiarized work had not participated in any exhibition or award. At the same time, she expressed her sincere apology to Ma Hansong and netizens, and hoped to implore everyone’s forgiveness.
In fact, back in 2016, a friend turned Wang Xiaoli’s work to Ma Hansong, saying that he had been plagiarized and that their paintings were almost the same. At that time, Ma Hansong also casually posted a friend circle half-jokingly spitting. After that, he did not pay attention to the matter.
After this plagiarism incident came to light, Ma Hansong’s students sent him the album “Great Realm” made by a gallery in 2017 that they found online, which included some of Wang Xiaoli’s works, and Ma Hansong saw that many of them were similar to his own.
Ma Hansong said, “those paintings are my very early works, her approach is to buy my earlier published books, enlarged topping out of which works, I have a “Ma Hansong ink figure painting techniques interpretation”, the first edition printed four thousand copies, quickly sold out, reprinted twice, by incomplete statistics, this (Wang Xiaoli) at least two dozen are copied from this book. “
Ma Hansong wrote in his article “Saying Fake Paintings Again”: More than ten years ago, I found that my works were counterfeited and hung on the Internet for sale in a dignified manner. Later, fake paintings appeared frequently in some galleries and auctions. Those paintings, crude and very vicious, were really intolerable, but they were clearly written with my name and my seal. I felt that my sincerity towards art was desecrated and my self-respect was hurt. Next, a buyer from out of town returned the painting to me because it was too different from the online price. I explained that it was a fake painting, but it was useless, so I had to return the money. I have thought, from the legal point of view, one is the counterfeiters subjectively out of intention, have the purpose of illegal possession of public and private property, the second is through the auction process, the implementation of deceptive behavior, the third is a lot of large amounts, so the act of using fake paintings for profit, fully consistent with the elements of fraud, why repeated exposure of fake paintings scandal, but did not hear the counterfeiters were punished?
Netizens have said on the matter, “This is not plagiarism, it is clearly a copy!”
“There are no shortcuts to art! If there is, it is to keep drawing, but not copying, copying will only copy the loss of their own inspiration.”
“Which industry in the country does not have plagiarism, it is strange that art is not plagiarized!”
“Can sit on the position of the Association, she is indeed quite powerful, but powerful is not the painting technology, but the means.”
“Apologize and that’s it? The chairman of the Association should not continue to do the position, right? And should also be punished! As the same creator, don’t you know that plagiarism is most taboo?”
“Congratulations, you’re famous, shortcut ah!”
“Without someone behind you, it’s hard to sit in this seat.”
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