Appropriation Art is the concept of taking a previously imagined and created idea and altering it either dramatically or slightly to the artist’s liking to fit the artwork. It is the idea that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows to create the new work. In most cases the original 'thing' remains accessible as the original, without change.The ‘copied’ artworks can be comprised of objects seen in everyday life or can be from another artist’s work.The earliest cases of Art Appropriation was when Georges Braques and Pablo Picasso appropriated objects from a non-art context into their works. But is appropriation of an already made artwork or ‘thing’ considered plagiarism or ‘stealing’?
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Artists and creationists alike in the past have had lawsuits filed against them over copyright infringements including Andy Warhol who faced a series of lawsuits from photographers whose work he appropriated and silk-screened.Patricia Caulfield, one such photographer, had taken a picture of flowers for a photography demonstration for a photography magazine. Warhol had covered the walls of Leo Castelli's New York gallery in 1964 with the silk-screened reproductions of the photograph. After seeing Warhol’s reproductions of the photo in a bookstore, the photographer claimed copyright ownership of the photograph and Warhol made a cash settlement out of court, despite being the author and creator of the silk screen versions. Despite this, one of Warhol's own works is constantly re-contextualised and interpreted without his declared ownership. This one such work is his simple soup can; labelled Cambell's Condensed Tomato Soup. These cans have been recreated by dozens of artists and students alike from contrasted pen drawings to full scale models of redesigned and revamped cans. Another appropriation artist was Marcel Duchamp, a French, naturalized American painter [Wikipedia, 2015]. Duchamp was made famous for his work of the ‘Readymades’. These Readymades were essentially mashed up hand-made objects in disfiguration. Readymade-style art did not
Many artists who appropriate claim that their …show more content…
Artists and creationists alike in the past have had lawsuits filed against them over copyright infringements including Andy Warhol who faced a series of lawsuits from photographers whose work he appropriated and silk-screened.Patricia Caulfield, one such photographer, had taken a picture of flowers for a photography demonstration for a photography magazine. Warhol had covered the walls of Leo Castelli's New York gallery in 1964 with the silk-screened reproductions of the photograph. After seeing Warhol’s reproductions of the photo in a bookstore, the photographer claimed copyright ownership of the photograph and Warhol made a cash settlement out of court, despite being the author and creator of the silk screen versions. Despite this, one of Warhol's own works is constantly re-contextualised and interpreted without his declared ownership. This one such work is his simple soup can; labelled Cambell's Condensed Tomato Soup. These cans have been recreated by dozens of artists and students alike from contrasted pen drawings to full scale models of redesigned and revamped cans. Another appropriation artist was Marcel Duchamp, a French, naturalized American painter [Wikipedia, 2015]. Duchamp was made famous for his work of the ‘Readymades’. These Readymades were essentially mashed up hand-made objects in disfiguration. Readymade-style art did not