Appropriation is an art form that can be traced back to 1912 and has been extensively used by artists since the 1980’s. It is the form were artists transform pre-existing objects or images into something new and enticing, only changing slight factors of the original artwork. Many artists have different interpretations of appropriation which leads to many opinions.
The first piece that I’m going to analyse has devalued the pre-existing art piece. The original painting of ‘Mona Lisa’ by Leonardo Da Vinci was appropriated by Fat Cat Art. Svetlana Petrova the creator of Fat cat art produces her artwork by photographing her ginger cat then using Photoshop to add the ginger cat into iconic paintings then printing the image and painting the picture on canvas. The reasoning of Fat cat art’s Mona Lisa was to give Mona Lisa’s smile a meaning. Although this artwork doesn’t have any political, social or religious meaning although I do admire the humour it emphasizes and the work that it took to perfectly place the cat in the painting
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Rowe. This artwork is a series of Marilyn Monroe screen prints created by Andy Warhol in 1976. Andy Warhol was born in 1928 and died in 1987, he was a one of the most popular filmmaker and painter of his time. Warhol embraced popular culture in his art rather than in a personal sense. It was appropriated by the photograph of Marilyn Monroe by Gene Korman for the film ‘Niagara’ in 1953. He created ten original Marilyn screen-prints displaying a variety of shadows and colours in each of the canvases. To create these images Warhol cropped and enlarged the photograph, transferred it onto the silk screen and used glue to block out the areas he didn’t want to have any colour. Then the ink was pulled across the screen using a squeegee. Ink would pass through and impress a print of his image onto the canvas. This was repeated until all the colours were
I think Andy warhol printed Marilyn Monroe after hers death because she was a social icon. Marilyn had become a brand and not a person and i think that this was the point of making this. She was dead but her picture was everywhere. He painted Marilyn like he painted the campbell's soup can. He was fascinated about popular culture. Like Elvis Presley or James Dean. They were both very famous in their life but when they died they become a commercial franchise. It’s the same for Marilyn. So Andy Warhol’s painting pf Marilyn Monroe should seen less as a portrait and more as a social
The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts. Appropriation is a strategy that has been used by artists for millennia. It involves the intentional copying, borrowing and alteration of pre-existing and often popular works. Many artists believe they are re-contextualising or appropriating the original imagery, allowing the viewer to renegotiate the meaning of the original in a different, more relevant, or more current context and that in separating images from their original context, they allow them to take on new meanings. Artists such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Gordon Bennett use appropriation as a form of bringing new, often personal, meaning to an artwork such as Gordon Bennett’s ‘Outsider’.
Thousands of artists emerge from their mindless slumber to paint rosy cheeks and draw cat inspired winged eyes. These artists sketch over-plucked eyebrows and draw arches to a create strange self-described works of art, that they believe to be aesthetically pleasing. If these artists see a glimpse of imperfection, their masterpiece is ruined and their canvas has to be wiped clean. The artist is seeking the approval and acceptance from their well-known art critics, so this masterpiece has to be their finest work of art.
“The Met’s very own Mona Lisa” (Tomkins 9). That is what Duccio di Buoninsegna’s Madonna and Child painting is known as today. “The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought the Madonna and Child for forty-five to fifty million dollars” (Tomkins 1). However, the painting was not always in public hands; in fact, the Met purchased the last known work of Duccio in private hands. Originally, the painting was held in the private hands of Adolphe Stoclet and his wife. When the couple died, their house and their collection went to their son, Jacques who held onto the painting, and passed it down to his daughters who lent it to an exhibition in Siena of Duccio and his school. The painting was eventually withdrawn from the exhibition and sold (Tomkins 2). Madonna and Child painting dated 1300 and was painted by Duccio di Buoninsegna a Sienese painter, who is considered the founder of modern Italian painting. I chose to research this painting because the subject matter of religious imagery and symbols interests me. Also because when I looked at the painting the emotion on the Madonna’s face almost jumped out at me. It is as if, she is looking at her newborn child with this deep sadness, which almost makes you think that the painting is foreshadowing the death of Jesus Christ. In addition, the burns of the side of the frame peaked my interest, as to why they were there. Art critics were also interested in this work they even consider Madonna and Child one of Duccio’s perfect works, and it said to be worth all the other paintings exhibited under the name of Duccio (Christiansen 14). The Madonna and Child painting’s iconography, imagery, emotional appeal to the viewers, and meaning all make this painting still a great work of art today.
“Cultural appropriation refers to picking and choosing elements of a culture by a member of another culture without permission” (O’Reilly). For example, white people steal certain parts of African American culture. They exploit it, misuse it, and whitewash it. “Exploiting a culture deprives the culture of the credit they rightfully
Fordham University Law Professor Susan Scafidi defines cultural appropriation as “Taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission. This can include unauthorized use of another culture’s dance, dress, music, language, folklore, cuisine, traditional medicine, religious
Popularity of the Mona Lisa is perhaps tenuous because a psychological mechanism recognized as the “mere-exposure effect” has likely played a role in shaping cultural preference for paintings. According to Prof. Cutting from Cornell University, students are grown to like the paintings which they have seen more in experiments, and thus even unconscious familiarity breeds affection (Intelligent Life). The scientific experiment offers a clue as to how canons are formed. In the history, the preferences of wealthy and influential collectors bestowed prestige on certain works, which made the works more likely to be hung in galleries and printed in anthologies. “Scholars”, Cutting argues, “are no different from the public in the effects of mere
Buoninsegna painted Madonna Enthroned Between Two Angels in the late 1200’s and then Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa in the 1500’s (Doc A). The differences between the two works were remarkable. Buoninsegna’s piece featured two dimensional figures and did not truly portray the image of a human. Da Vinci’s painting, however, depicts a woman in three dimensional settings that fully replicate the outside world. It was clear that renaissance art was constantly being built upon to create a more complete work. “In addition to its expression of classical Greco-Roman traditions, Renaissance art sought to capture the experience of the individual and the beauty and mystery of the natural world” (Lewis, Jeffrey).These advancements not only helped people living in the renaissance to better portray themselves and others, but also created the foundations for how modern art is created
Andy Warhol’s art piece of the two was the Twenty-Five Colored Marilyns. The date of this piece was 1962 and was 82 x 66 ¼ inches. This piece was created weeks before Marilyn Monroe’s suicide. The picture used of Marilyn was a reproduction of the publicity photograph. He gives us twenty-five of her using the silkscreen process. Her face was given different clarity and degrees by uneven inking, also a homemade quality is given by a tilting of the grid. It is possible that he used this painting to show his obsession over famous people in this painting. The Drowning Girl was created by Roy Lichtenstein. The Drowning Girl was created in the year 1963. The painting is a cropping of images into a new one, the source image of this painting is a boyfriend standing over the girlfriend in a
Cultural Appropriation: “Cultural appropriation is the adoption of elements of one culture by members of a different cultural group, especially if the adoption is of an oppressed people's cultural elements by members of the dominant culture” - Eden Caceda[1]
The Lady has a white “V” neck shaped collar while the Mona Lisa has gold trim on her square shaped collar. Mona Lisa’s dress also looks a lot more flowy and lighter while the Lady’s dress seems more layered and thicker probably due to the colder weather in northern Europe. The Lady only has a dark blue canvas for a background while the Mona Lisa has a clearly defined landscape behind her with trees, water and a dirt road. The veil that the Lady wears is made from significantly thicker cloth and wears a dark colored headband. The Mona Lisa’s veil is barely visible. The Lady has a lighter hair color and is tied up in a bun with some kind of net or cap around it with silver pins tucked into it to keep her veil in place, while Mona Lisa has her dark, wavy hair draping down her shoulders in a casual yet elegant manner. We can see the ears on the Lady, but the Mona Lisa has her ears covered by her hair. The eyes of the Lady are bright and hazel colored. Mona Lisa’s eyes are dark and you can barely see her pupils in her irises. Maybe that is how Leonardo got the effect that her eyes seem to be moving. It also appears that she has no eyebrows, or they’re severely
According to Negativland, artists have always been using their environment, history, and surrounding to get inspired to create a new way to express or critique culture. So in case of artistic appropriation, new artists are just using original work as “raw material to mold and remold.” Negativland attempted to show this artistic side of their work, but it was overseen by the court. Negativland argued in their interview that “Negativland occupies itself with recontextualizing captured fragments to create something entirely new- a psychological impact based on a new juxtaposition of diverse elements, ripped from their usual context, chewed up, and spit out as a new form of hearing the world around us.” Here, Negativland explains how taking someone else’s work is not a form of “theft” but instead it is creating a whole new context that no one had thought of before.
Generally, people use the term “cultural appropriation” to describe a person or group taking elements of a distinct cultural group’s identity and implementing them into their own cultural identity. The use of the term “Cultural appropriation” often comes with negative connotations; it is often associated with cultural groups implementing elements of another groups cultural identity without regard for those elements broader cultural significance. However, the term is not inherently negative. In this essay, unless explicitly stated, the term cultural appropriation will be used without the application of any positive or negative
middle of paper ... ... Today, appropriation is a necessary part of artmaking in our high-speed visual and information-based society. Some people feel that appropriation is not necessary in art. I feel that this idea is ridiculous.
If the appreciation for different cultures is not done correctly, it can seem to be cultural appropriation. Any piece of a culture can be stolen, mocked, and disrespected, from music, clothing, food, etc. As a society with such a vast amount of cultures, it is important to know the difference between multiculturalism and cultural appropriation. We can unknowingly steal or disrespect another culture all while thinking we are appreciating the culture.