As I see it, the chief difference between my work and theirs is the content; while Warhol and Rauschenberg largely re-contextualized
appropriated photographic imagery, I choose to utilize only original photographs which are relevant to my personal life experiences in some way.
Not exact matches
It becomes evidently clear, that through the very nature of Tuymans» process of
appropriating from
photographic imagery, abstracting it and then re-working it through mind and hand, he draws upon a lack of sincerity and belief in
photographic imagery today.
While considerable attention has been given to the decade through artists» use of
appropriated imagery and
photographic sources, the exhibition examines this moment specifically through the lens of painting, considering the ways in which the medium was reinvigorated throughout the decade at a time when its relevance was fundamentally challenged...
With the resurgence of figurative contemporary painting, painters of the 1980s — who experimented with
appropriated imagery and
photographic resources while critics challenged the relevance of their medium — offer a fruitful comparison.
Pairing a figurative style with self - generated
imagery and formal composition
appropriated from her
photographic practice, Cedar's paintings combine painterly gestures with articulated surfaces, oblique perspective shifts with flatness — the scenes wavering between depiction, memory, and fantasy.
Lawson utilizes a wide spectrum of
photographic languages: staged
imagery, loose documentary,
appropriated pictures given to her by her subjects, or images she discovers in the media.
German artist Hans - Peter Feldmann collects in order to
appropriate and challenge aesthetic sensibility, Richard Hamilton's use of pre-existing
photographic imagery is linked with pop's consumerist strategies, and Dieter Roth, German - Swiss conceptual artist and long time collaborator with Hamilton, alighted most particularly (nay obsessively) on the postcard format, exemplified in Postkarte.
Richard Prince's «New Portraits» series (2015), in which he
appropriates Instagram posts, turning them into large - scale prints, is evidence of the influence viral, online
imagery has already had on contemporary art photography; and, while we might cringe at the thought of «selfies» and «food porn» someday appearing in MoMA's
photographic collection, it is almost imperative that they do.