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Art Appropriation

ART APPROPRIATION
 Postmodernist idea
 “If nothing is original, why not just steal shamelessly?”
 Historical practice
 Selection and manipulation of found materials
 Strangely familiar yet new creation
 Deliberate reproduction
 Copying
Art  Adopting intellectual property
Appropriation  Borrowing from history or pop culture
 Evolved in 1960’s and peaked in the 80’s
Antecedents of Art
Appropriation
 Cubist collages and constructions of
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
 1912 onwards
 The Guitar, Mandolin
Antecedents of Art
Appropriation
 Surrealism
 Salvador Dali
 1936
 Lobster Telephone

 Jasper Johns
 Pop Art
Antecedents of Art
Appropriation
 Marcel Duchamp
 Readymade
 1917
 Bicycle Wheel, Fountain
Two Activities in  Appropriation of artistic content
Art -Artistic styles
Appropriation  Appropriation of items which are regarded as artworks
Two Activities in  Appropriation of artistic content
Art -Artistic styles
Appropriation  Appropriation of items which are regarded as artworks
Two Activities in  Appropriation of artistic content
Art -Artistic styles
Appropriation  Appropriation of items which are regarded as artworks
Cultural Appropriation that occurs across the boundaries
Appropriation of cultures
Object Appropriation
-Tangible
-frieze from the Parthenon (Greece to the British Museum)
-Xenaaksiala totem pole (Vancouver Island to the Stockholm
museum)

Types of Art
Appropriation
Object Appropriation
- Intangible
Types of Art -Musical composition, story or poem
Appropriation
Style Appropriation
Types of Art
Appropriation
Motif Appropriation
 Les Demoiselles
d‘Avignon, Picasso
Types of Art
-Green Stripe,
Appropriation Henri Matisse
Subject Appropriation
Types of Art
Appropriation
 Readymade
 Pastiche
 Rephotography
Contestable  Simulation
Strategies  Parody
 Replicating
 Remixing
 Readymade
 Pastiche
 Rephotography
Contestable  Simulation
Strategies  Parody
 Replicating
 Remixing

Pablo Picasso, Tete de Taureau (Bull's Head)


 Readymade
 Pastiche
 Rephotography
Contestable  Simulation
Strategies  Parody
 Replicating
 Remixing
 Readymade
 Pastiche
 Rephotography
Contestable  Simulation
Strategies  Parody
 Replicating
 Remixing
 Readymade
 Pastiche
 Rephotography
Contestable  Simulation
Strategies  Parody
 Replicating
 Remixing
 Readymade
 Pastiche
 Rephotography
Contestable  Simulation
Strategies  Parody
 Replicating
 Remixing
 Readymade
 Pastiche
 Rephotography
Contestable  Simulation
Strategies  Parody
 Replicating
 Remixing
 Readymade
 Pastiche
 Rephotography
Contestable  Simulation
Strategies  Parody
 Replicating
 Remixing
Issues Art Appropriation vs Forgery
 Death of the Author
Issues - Roland Barthes
Jeff Koons,
Rogers V.
Koons
Andy Warhol,
Campbell’s
Soup, 1968
Damien Hirst,
Emms V. Hirst
Shepard
Fairey, AP V.
Fairey

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