Phrases with «appropriation artist»

An "appropriation artist" is someone who takes existing images, objects, or ideas from other sources and incorporates them into their own artwork to create something new and meaningful. They borrow or "appropriate" these elements to communicate their artistic vision or critique and reinterpret the original context. Full definition

Sentences with «appropriation artist»

  • Bad news for appropriation artists and anyone else who's ever produced a collage. (artfcity.com)
  • Apple's formulation and subsequent enactment as an art work of his change of identity from Barrie Bates to Billy Apple in 1962, alongside his wider contribution to the developing language of pop art — dovetailing issues of commodification and identity — is singular within British art history and coincidentally prefigures the similar concerns of appropriation artists of the 1980s. (contemporaryartsociety.org)
  • The works we now present illustrates important lines and tendencies in the Astrup Fearnley Collection's history — from the 1960s British and European pop painting and German Neo-expressionism via the British YBA - artists and the American appropriation artists in the 1980s and 1990s and to the past decades focus on the younger generation of international contemporary artists. (afmuseet.no)
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