Marie Blanco Hendrickx aka Mijn Schatje is an Art Thief?
Any artist worth their ilk has overly influenced someone at some point but when does it go too far? Well when they’re actually using your art without credit, permission, and proper compensation.
I’ve been hearing that this highly successful “illistrator” is an art thief for taking other people’s photographs and photoshopping the hell out of them. Little did I know that one of the more influential and currently unknown and uncredited artist “inspirations” is a friend of mine.
I found that out last night at Lucky 13 when a gathering celebrating the visit of one of our old friends brought this beautiful doll that is so exquisite I was compelled to ask permission before touching it. I asked her if she knew about the Mijn Schatje scandal. And she said “Yes!”. It turns out I get easily confused when artists change their names by getting married or having art fag monikers like I do. But anyhoo, I’m blonde and while I was already outraged, I’m now practically rabid as she’s one of my own.
For a full expose check out Radio Trash’s blog.
And some more incriminating photos here:
June 7, 2009 at 1:14 am
Hi, I have a blog over at http://www.itssimplyburlesque.wordpress.com and since you’re a burlesque dancer (and that’s what my blog’s about), I’d really appreciate it if you could take a look at it and give me any advice on how to make it better. I’m working on a few feature stories for the blog and as yet have only compiled any burlesque news I can find on the page. This is part of a project I’m doing to graduate college so I really want to make my blog as close to perfect as humanly possible. Also, I want to respect the hard work all you ladies/gents put into the art of burlesque. I enjoyed reading this post and that sucks that someone would do something like that when all they have to do is ask for permission to borrow art.
September 22, 2009 at 11:17 pm
These dolls are so cool… It’s really unfair of her to simply copy someone else’s stuff like that.
September 23, 2009 at 12:48 am
Yeah it’s really sad. My friend spends months putting the dolls together painting them and then photographing them with the right lighting etc. Then Miji Schatje just copies them off the internet and draws over them. AND makes thousands and thousands of dollars doing it without ever referencing her sources. It’s absolutely ridiculous.