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Title
Nelson
Artist
Paul Davenport
Medium
Drawing - Charcoal And Compressed Charcoal On Paper
Description
It has come to my attention that the commercial printing of this drawing may be infringing Intellectual Property of the Nelson Mandela Foundation... Am currently talking to both the Foundation and their lawyer's - but am herewith withdrawing any printing of commercial items of this work, untill I hear further from them.
My intent was to honour him - and show his (possible) hurt, strength and resolve… as I can’t think of anyone else who showed such a personification of ubuntu in everything he did.
While he was alive Mr Mandela was deeply uncomfortable with his name and image being used for commercial purposes and therefore, the Nelson Mandela Foundation registered Mr Mandela’s names, sobriquets and image as trademarks. In order to honour Mr Mandela’s personally expressed wishes, these trademarks are never licensed out for commercial purposes.
An artist is in their full legal right to produce an original artistic interpretation of Mr Mandela’s image and should one so wish, sell it. It is when reproduction or replication are engaged that one could find oneself inadvertently straying into the fraught and complex arena of infringement on the intellectual property rights of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
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This Nelson Mandela drawing is an ongoing exploration of emotional states - I'm still interested in exploring and capturing the energy of the stroke with the marks I make, but I guess the emotional state captured, is more mine than his ever was.
As with nearly all my drawings, any white on the drawing is blank paper. Which is rather an intimidating way to work as the compressed charcoal cannot be edited, but it's rather fun!
Done with compressed charcoal (conte) on 200gsm Daler Rowney Fine Grain HeavyWeight paper.
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July 4th, 2014
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Comments (95)
Jeff Burgess
Well, the Nelson Mandela foundation should simply purchase the work. It is great. Sorry for your "infringement" problem. I once had to take down an image that featured the words "Mulan Rouge" in the image (I misspelled it hear to avoid problems) because of "infringement" issues related to the name.
Paul Davenport replied:
Yeh, 'Intellectual Property' rights are rather weird really - unlike normal copyright it.doesn't come up very often! - only ever came up twice when I was doing commercial work - one was Eurotunnel pictures I was buying off a reputable photo sight (which they apparently had illegally as its illegal to take pictures!!!)... and the other was when I was trying to promote an exhibition - and I couldn't use any images from the exhibition! ...very, very odd! :-)
Taphath Foose
Beautiful work, Paul!!! Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Your Best Work"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" Discussion!!
Christina Ford
just fabulous!
Paul Davenport replied:
Thank you Christina:-) actually found the idea of covering such a large A2 area with compressed charcoal and just leaving bits of the white paper showing quite appealing!
Robyn King
Congratulations your beautiful work is being featured in 500 Views Share Group & Shared :-)
Angie Tirado
Congratulations!! This stunning Black and White image has been featured today in "Creative Black and White Fine Art Photographs" Group!! You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “Stunning Group Features in DECEMBER 2017” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others.
Esther Newman-Cohen
Paul, this is one of the best portraits I've ever seen. I can feel the man, feel his pain, feel his suffering. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! L + F
Paul Davenport replied:
Thank you Esther, very happy you like it :-)... Im in the process of trying to decide whether or not I should stop drawing like this at the moment! - "not erasing any marks I make" as a self imposed rule has been interesting as an experiment... but I find it rather stressful :-)
Kay Brewer
Wonderful drawing of a wonderful man! l/f and congratulations on your art reaching more than 1000 views!
Paul Davenport
Thank you very much to Nermine Hanna for featuring this drawing in the 'Artist Salon 2-HANDMADE only' group :-)
Pamela Williams
congrats on reaching 1000 views!
Paul Davenport replied:
Thank you Pamela :-) ... sorry for the delay responding, Ive been away for a few weeks!