Appropriation

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“Good artists copy. Great artists steal.”

ap·pro·pri·a·tion

əˌprōprēˈāSH(ə)n/

noun

1. the action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.

According to the Tate Museum webpage on appropriation, "Appropriation art raises questions of originality, authenticity and authorship, and belongs to the long modernist tradition of art that questions the nature or definition of art itself.

... Appropriation can be tracked back to the cubist collages and constructions of Picasso ... in which real objects such as newspapers were included to represent themselves. The practice was developed much further in the readymades created by the French artist Marcel Duchamp from 1915. Most notorious of these was Fountain, a men’s urinal signed, titled, and presented on a pedestal. Later, surrealism also made extensive use of appropriation in collages and objects such as Salvador Dalí’s Lobster Telephone. In the late 1950s appropriated images and objects appear extensively in the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and in pop art."

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The Biggest thing to remember: Keep your work ORIGINAL, even if you reference anotherwork or artist!

Examples in Art/ Answer the following questions for each set of images:

• How are they similar?
• How are they different?
• Are they differnt enough to be considered appropriated? Why?