A better metaphor would be copying and then claiming that you created the original art. Studying can explain but does not replace the subject of study. Producin

A better metaphor would be copying and then claiming that you created the original art. Studying can explain but does not replace the subject of study. Producing a painting based in previous paintings can create further problems. In art is very common that some author review their own work and made several paintings of the same subject. Artists made several attempts to conquer a panting, they draw studios or use different mediums. Photographers reproduce one portrait 20 years later to see how the subject changed. If you insert an IA image in the middle and copyright it, then any posterior painting on the same subject, even by the original author, would became derivative of the IA image that replaced it. This could even go so far as excluding the artists to review their most successful works.