Art theft alert! Mijn Shatje
Cats: Disgust, Scams n' the Like|So recently, Mijn Schatje has been extremely popular. We’re talking $1,000 print popular. Too bad she can’t keep an original thought in her head. Most of her artwork is directly traced from pictures of BJDs, company photos and owners photos alike. Check out the linked list to see the ‘artist’s’ piece and the original source. Pretty damning evidence. Much thanks to Tomato for all the hard sleuthing!
This artist is published regularly in French magazine Biba, as well as having been featured recently in High Fructose, displaying a Narae overlay as her own work. The artist, as seen in this captured blog comment, claims that while using BJDs as models, she’s never seen any pictures that look like her own work. Sure you have’t, sweetie.
Get the word out and, if you can take the time, send an e-mail to a gallery or magazine that features her work. I think that the list of stolen photos is pretty self-explanatory, and I should hope that the art community at large will not turn a blind eye to one of the most obvious cases of intellectual theft that I’ve seen in awhile.
May 31st, 2009 at 8:29 pm
That is . . . wow. That’s disgusting and blatant
June 1st, 2009 at 12:16 am
I hope she understands what it is to be ashamed. I’m so repulsed by this clip artist.
June 1st, 2009 at 1:59 am
Glad to see the word getting out! I’ve compiled a more detailed list including mails sent to doll companies and the responses received so far here: http://radiotrash.org/mijn/
Many many more overlays too. It’s disheartening to see peoples work being ripped off like this.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
What a shame. She does not even bother to take her own pictures.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:53 am
This pisses me off! Example #2 is how I knew Olie would look great with dark hair — since Olie is a Belita head.
June 24th, 2009 at 6:41 am
She claims she is a great artist but anyone should know she is just blatant and embarassing.
July 13th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
She is currently having a show at an important italian gallery with my boyfriend and other great artists that actually do NOT feel the need to rip-off other people in order to create art/make money – we have contacted the gallery, hoping they will remove her works, I will keep you updated if you are interested.
This is so disgusting and outrageous, we need to spread the word about her!
September 17th, 2009 at 11:34 am
you are all so full of it-perhaps her work is inspired by these other pieces it is also original in appearance.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Hahaha, are you for real? Or are you another tracing ‘artist’ guarding your back? Little Miss Cashcow is a thief, however you slice it.
Check out the dictionary definitions of ‘inspired’ and ‘copied,’ Chris my friend. Then actually go look at the overlays of Mijn Scatje’s stolen work. You’ll be a whole lot wiser and maybe you’ll even feel inspired yourself to defend real artists, not crap copyists who steal my friends’ work and claim it as their own. You can’t just slap some vectors over someone else’s artwork and then say it’s something original. Or did you miss that part of ethics?
January 30th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
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