Stop Copying Me

Appropriation in Art

• Changing the technique/media

• Changing the context

• Parody

CHANGING THE TECHNIQUE/MEDIA

Malcolm Morley

Malcolm Morley

Malcolm Morley

Malcolm Morley

Robert Longo

Robert Longo

Robert Longo

Philip Taaffe

Philip Taaffe

Philip Taaffe

Philip Taaffe

Philip Taaffe

Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown

CHANGING THE CONTEXT

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons

Pierre Bismuth

Pierre Bismuth

Pierre Bismuth

Pierre Bismuth

Pierre Bismuth

Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips

David Salle

David Salle

David Salle

David Salle

Kelley Walker

Kelley Walker

Kelley Walker

Kelley Walker

PARODY

Marcel Duchamp

Picasso???

Botero

Roy Lichtenstein???

Andy Warhol

Banksy

Deborah Kass

Deborah Kass

Deborah Kass

Deborah Kass

Banksy

Banksy

Banksy

Banksy

Banksy

Robert Colescott

Robert Colescott

Edoaurd Manet

Pablo Picasso

Dominique Ingres

Mel Ramos

Titian

Eduoard Manet

Mel Ramos

Yasumasu Morimura

Yasumasu Morimura

Yasumasu Morimura

Yasumasu Morimura

Yasumasu Morimura

Yasumasu Morimura

Takeaways

• Is originality possible or desirable?

• Changing the context of an image impacts the meaning.

• Appropriation can have as it raison d’ erte both pictorial and conceptual motivations.