Gerry Morehead, Bean Stalk

Oil on canvas (2 panels) 
1984
Inches: 72 x 48 
Centimeters: 182.88 x 121.92

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Gerry Moorhead was at the center of an "appropriation" scandal involving some currently "hot" artists. Moorhead created a mural in Brooklyn Public School PS 130 quoting a John Lennon phrase, "Imagine all the people living life in peace."  In 2013, John Teplin recreated the piece in block letters above some Miro-inspired shapes. Following this, artist Jamian Juliano-Villani did a different take in 2015, leaving the Miro images in place. The Juliano-Villani piece was represented by Gavin Brown's enterprise. Teplin argued that his artwork was copied by Juliano-Villani who argued that in art "Everything is a reference."