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a lobster on a telephone, a urinal on a pedestal,even sheets of music pasted onto a collage - they are all appropriation. appropriation in art and art history refersto the practice of artists using pre-existing objects or images in their art with littletransformation of the original. this means copying, borrowing, and alteringimages and objects that already exists. now, appropriation has been a strategy usedby artists for a super long time. edouard manet and pablo picasso took historicalartworks as departure points for their own pieces. picasso was also one of the firstto use items from the mass media in his work, when he used real objects such as newspapersin his cubist collages.
marcel duchamp infamously appropriated a urinalin his 1915 work fountain. surrealism also made extensive use of appropriation in collagesand objects such as salvador dalã’s lobster telephone. appropriation took on new significance inmid-20th-century america and britain with the rise of consumerism and the proliferationof popular images through mass media outlets from magazines to television. appropriated images and objects appear extensivelyin the pop art of jasper johns, robert rauschenberg, claes oldenburg, andy warhol, tom wesselman,and roy lichtenstein. they reproduced, juxtaposed, or repeated mundane,everyday images from popular culture.
warhol stated, “pop artists did images thatanyone walking down the street would recognize in a split second...†these recontextualized familiar images atonce project and reflect the ideas, interactions, needs, desires, and cultural elements of thetimes. appropriation is powerful because it raisesquestions about the nature or definition of art. what is originality, authorship, authenticity?even today, when appropriating, remixing, and sampling images and media is commonplace,it continues to challenge traditional notions of originality and push the boundaries ofwhat it means to be an artist. i hope this video helped you better understandappropriation. if you enjoyed it, please like
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