Eyewitness News 11.com: Young Prospective Artist Finds Herself in a ‘No Sketch’ Zone: “Julia Illana is a second grader who was visiting the popular exhibit there with her parents and was sketching the paintings in her notebook.
‘I love to draw in my notebook,’ Illana said.
Her sketch of Picasso’s Woman with Bangs, which came out pretty good, and Matisse’s Large Reclining Nude got the promising artist into trouble with museum security.
A museum guard told Julia’s parents that sketching was prohibited because the great masterpieces are copyright protected, a concept that young Julia did not understand until her mother explained the term.
‘If you wrote a book and someone saw that book and copied it,’ Julia’s mother said. ‘Then people would think that that person was the one who wrote the book when you were the actual one.’
Actually, the museum guard was mistaken. There was no copyright issue, and the museum apologizes and is telling artists to sketch away as long as they do not interrupt the flow of traffic in the always crowded gallery.”
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