Description acceptable. Van Gogh likened “translating” to his performance of this action, driven by his love for paintings like Millet’s Sower. Andy Warhol told an interviewer “I don’t know. Ask Elaine” in reference to Elaine Sturtevant’s skill at this action. Sherrie Levine, whose artistic practice focuses on doing this action, used it to create a bronze piece subtitled “Buddha.” Japanese woodcuts of a plum orchard and a bridge in the rain inspired (*) Van Gogh to do this action using them. The composition of Da Vinci’s Battle of Anghiari was preserved in part due to Peter Paul Rubens doing this action. Berthe Morisot and other female artists honed their skills by doing this action at the Louvre. For 10 points, art museums have programs for students to set up easels near an Old Master painting and perform what action? ■END■
ANSWER: copying [accept appropriation; accept synonyms such as reproducing or mimicking; accept rephotographing; accept reimagining; prompt on specific artistic actions like drawing or painting by asking “of what?” and accept answers indicating that the subject is another piece of art; reject “forgery” or “theft”] (Elaine Sturtevant was an appropriation artist who so mastered the techniques of her peers that Warhol directed the interviewer to her when asked about his artistic technique. Sherrie Levine’s Buddha is a bronze casting after Duchamp’s Fountain.)
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