The phrase 'derivative paintings' is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to paintings that are based on or similar to previous works or styles. Example: The artist's collection featured a series of derivative paintings inspired by Van Gogh's use of bold brushstrokes and vibrant colors.
While Mr. Zeng's first sculpture, in 2009, was a small bronze of what appears to be a tree branch reminiscent of his bold brush strokes, the artist says he has been striving to create sculptures that are not "derivatives" from his paintings.
If they seem strongly derivative of the "matter paintings" made by the Spanish painter Antonio Tapies, at least the lesson has been well taken.
Oscar, if you're reading this, I don't really give a shit if people say your paintings are derivative of Joe Bradley or Basquiat.
But here unfortunately it is a source of pain, given that most of the paintings are clumsily derivative.
Around the edges of these early series are undistinguished paintings, some openly derivative of Mr. Richter's work, and glimpses of spontaneity: a few small aggressively modeled forms in plaster, one garnished with bits of trash and two wiglike formations of bright epoxy resin poured over cloth, slowly rotating on motorized iron poles, looking a little like severed heads.
It also refers to derivative sculptural representations of these paintings that were first made in the 1980s.
Through June 30 Though not without derivative tendencies, Brad Kahlhamer's big semi-abstract landscape paintings have lots of raw energy.
Prince's paintings, she concludes, are "instead infringing derivative works".
Mr. Hrones, Mr. Rockefeller's lawyer, said the paintings were not originals, just very convincing "derivatives".
But derivative or not, there's something distinctly pleasing about these playfully conceived paintings.
