HAHAHA, That is contemporary art sir, making a copy of original painting with different interpretation. 🙂 same with starry night of van gogh a lot of different version from other artist. It's started from scratch and painted from nothing. That's not plagiarism, if for you that is plagiarism okay, but with regards to the rule of art it is not. Thankyou again. And please study art first before accusing someone like that. Thankyou.
Agreed. I am also one of the local artists here in our country and we are basically taught to copy contemporary arts and any other paintings or drawings done by old masters like Rembrandt, Bargue, Bouguereau, Caravaggio, etc. to master their way of drawing movement and the elements they used to their artworks. I studied Academic painting wherein the instructor used to be a student in an Art Academy in Italy. She said that most of the Academe persuade their students to draw and copy old masterworks without the manipulation of the elements used by the old masters. They can also freely sell and display their artworks in an exhibit without being called as
plagiarist.