Preferred optimum label stickiness

It sounds a bit sad, but the most interesting thing I did yesterday was stick labels on pieces of paper. The office move unearthed a cache of half-used sheets of mailing labels that I decided to use up on a research project we are doing, sticking codes onto surveys. The interesting bit was finding out that different labels have different levels of stickiness: some peeled off their backing sheets easily, while others had much more grip. I even ended up with a favourite: labels that had a heavy backing sheet and quite a lot of grip, but still peeled off evenly without curling up and catching themselves. Then I wondered if preferred optimum label stickiness differed among individuals, like tennis racquet tension. Then I decided that developing theories on the optimum level of stickiness for mailing labels meant I should find something else to do for a bit.

I have been following Australia's major art prizes this year. I think this is because I haven't seen any films eligible for the Oscars and such (the local cinema burnt down last year and has not yet been rebuilt). Apparently I need an annual awards fix to get me through the year. Anyway, I'm sure you will be shocked - shocked! - to hear that there is controversy - controversy! - over the winner of the Wynne Prize for Australian landscapes. It turns out that the winning landscape has the same composition as a 17th century painting. Which is all well and good, being homage and referencing and intertextuality and so forth, but the artist didn't acknowledge the original painting at the time of entry, making it look like his own composition. And that's not on, clearly. (Also, there is another controversy in that it won an Australian landscape prize despite not being an Australian landscape.) Anyway, here are the two paintings side by side: what do you think? Homage or plagiarism?

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