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Sep 29, 2011 Updated Oct 4, 2011

Bob Dylan has been accused of plagiarism...not in his music, but in his paintings.

Dylan's Asia Series exhibition, which opened at the Gagosian Gallery in New York last week, has prompted howls of protest from folks who claim many of the 18 paintings on show are dead-set copies of famous photos by the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dmitri Kessel and Léon Busy.

Photo enthusiast Okinawa Soba has claimed that six of the paintings are direct copies of photos hosted on his Flickr account.

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Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind"...

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On Sep 30, 2011. 2:22pm

KashmirG said

Well-known singer/songwriter Bob Dylan has an exhibition of paintings currently being displayed in New York. The exhibition, called a “firsthand depictions of people, street scenes, structure and scenery," was supposedly an expression of Dylan's travels in Asia. However, some are blaming the artist for robbing his impression from previously published photographs. Article resource: Bob Dylan paintings may be copied from photographs.