1. = Appropriation in Art Homage or Insult?
Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Silkscreen

2. To appropriate something involves
taking possession of it!
E.g. Mass culture such as Comic style and famous ‘Mickey Mouse icon, adopted in pop art!

3. and criticism on: what really is a work of art?
The practice of “appropriation” has become quite familiar in
the art world over the past century. The practice can be tracked back to
the CUBIST Collages and constructions of Picasso and Georges Barque
made from 1912 on, in which real objects such as newspapers were
included to represent themselves. It was often used in the 80’s, where
artists cut-and-paste, some take images from other artists and alter or
use fractions of them in their own work, and some just borrow ideas from
other artists.
In the late 1950s, appropriated images and objects appear extensively in
the works of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and in Pop Art,
where artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichenstein practises it for both social commentary on culture…
Left to right:
Brillo Box Warhol, 1964 Silkscreen ink on painted wood 17 1/8 x 17 1/8 x 14 in
Flag Jasper Johns –55. Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood (three panels)
Fountain Marcel Duchamp, 1917.
and criticism on: what really is a work of art?

4. 1.0
Julie Rrap
JULIE RRAP
Appropriation!
Julie Rrap has been a major figure in Australian contemporary art for over twenty years. Since the mid-1970s, she has worked with photography, painting, sculpture, performance and video in an on-going project concerned with representations of the body.

5. 1.0 Julie Rrap Appropriation!
The viewer was to interact with the appropriated artwork by involving their bodies- lying in the negative bronze casts, they will be in a similar position as the main subject, thus becoming ‘one’ with the artwork.
Untitled (after Manet’s Olympia), 2002 Julie Rrap

6. 1.0 Julie Rrap Appropriation!
Exhibited along-side these sculptures are life-sized, digitally-manipulated prints on canvas of the original paintings from which the same figures have been removed. With these works, Rrap invites the viewer to enter the scene, to place themselves into these famous compositions… using 3 different mediums- digital, sculptural and performance.
‘Fleshed Out’- Untitled (after Manet’s
Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe’ ), 2002
Julie Rrap

7. 1.0 Picasso Appropriation!
Picasso’s distinctive style of cubism, re-interpreting the masterpiece
"When I see le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, I tell myself pain for later. " Indeed, it should really start to suffer that twenty years later. Picasso begins with the work before drawing to interpret in its own way to play different players. While in most versions, painted with broad flat, the "talker" remains in profile, the Bather, it is presented so as to leave nothing to guess its charms. And when it completes its series, all participants of this "party square" are completely naked. However, the realization of sub-wood, painted a very virtuoso by Manet, poses many more problems to Picasso, who in his long career, has hardly painted nature.
Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe’
Manet ,1863. Oil on canvas, 208 x cm
Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe’
Picasso, 1962, Oil on Canvas

8. Las Meninas
1957 Picasso
Oil on canvas 194 x 260 cm
Las Meninas 1656
Diego Velazquez
oil on canvas, 276 x 320 cm

9. 2.0 Cindy Sherman CINDY SHERMAN
Appropriation!
By turning the camera on herself, Cindy Sherman has built a name as one of the most respected photographers of the late twentieth century. Sherman uses herself as a vehicle for commentary on a variety of issues of the modern world: the role and representation of women in society and the media. Questions the role of the artist as well as the nature of the creation of art.

10. 2.0
Cindy Sherman
Appropriation!
Using prosthetic body parts to augment her own body, Sherman recreates great pieces of art and thus manipulates her role as a contemporary artist working in the twentieth-century.
Untitled #195 Cindy Sherman

11. 2.0 Cindy Sherman Untitled #228 Cindy Sherman Untitled #216

12. 2.0
Cindy Sherman
“The idea that images can be reproduced and seen anytime, anywhere, by anyone”
Young Sick Bacchus, , early self- portrait by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Untitled #224
Cindy Sherman

13. Questions to Ponder :
Who owns the image? How much of an original idea does the artist really own?
Does one artist have the right to say to another, “You may not use my work as inspiration for your own work?” With the trend of appropriation catching on, many artists, their practices, and the ideals of art have come into question.

14. Homework for Section A:
Sherrie Levine
Banksy
Andy Warhol

15. Homework for Section B:
Case Study 1
LA Based Artist
Shepherd Fairey
Founder of Street Label- ‘Obey’
Artistic style often involves creating graffiti art and imagery composition of guerilla warfare + political/ propaganda posters, merged with popular culture, celebrity icons and current global events.

16. Who do you think is right?
Fairey vs. AP
AP Countersues Over Use Of Obama Image By Artist Shepard Fairey
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Who do you think is right?
- Please Read attached article 1- Fairey vs AP now

17. Who do you think is right?
Case Study 2
Art Rogers vs. Jeff Koons
(in essay entitled Subjective Reasoning by James Traub)1992
Left: Art Rogers, Puppies, 1985 © Art Rogers.
Right: Jeff Koons, String of Puppies, 1988
Who do you think is right?
- Please Read attached article 2- Koons vs Roger now

18. Questions to Ponder : How Original are Imitators?
What would make an appropriation work successful, instead of just imitation?