Gorinsky's first imitations of the flowers, tied with various dyed materials on hooks, were failures.
The first imitation was made while Mälzel was in Baltimore.
In response, for his first show, "Imitation of Wealth," in 2013, he made replicas of pieces by famous artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, Robert Smithson, and Dan Flavin.
The show's most ambitious painting is a reclining nude, viewed feet first in imitation of Mantegna's "Dead Christ"; the strangely distorted perspective makes for a bizarrely beguiling travesty of Renaissance classicism.
But its true notoriety comes from being a kind of second-rate imitation of the popular Kentucky Fried Chicken chain, right down to the same red and white colors and those familiar initials.
"These children might be trying to avoid Frank Sinatra Jr. syndrome, that is, becoming a second-rate imitation of their parents," said Dr. John Altman, a psychiatrist in Los Angeles who treats many children of celebrities.
It appears that Istanbul, which went from a cosmopolitan wonderland in the 19th century to, in the Nobel-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk's words, a "pale, poor, second-class imitation of a Western city" for much of the 20th, is having its moment of rebirth.
These burning mansions, for Pamuk's generation, symbolized "the sudden destruction of the last traces of a great culture and a great civilization we were unfit or unprepared to inherit, in our frenzy to turn Istanbul into a pale, poor, second-class imitation of a western city".
However, his second imitation, The Vanity of Human Wishes, is completely different; the language remains simple, but the poem is more complicated and difficult to read because Johnson is trying to describe complex Christian ethics.
A third imitation is the lack of liver ATP levels, which should be addressed in future studies.
