In Levine's work she is recognized for directly
appropriating the work of other artists such as in her 1981 photographic series After Walker Evans where she famously rephotographed Walker Evans» photos from a Walker Evans exhibition catalogue to create her own replicas.
Not exact matches
Inspired by the current artworld appetite for process - based abstraction and the related trend
of collectors buying such
works to flip them quickly for a profit, Lund
appropriated imagery from paintings by
other emerging
artists and installed a GPS tracking device on the stretcher bar
of each painting so that he could track the whereabouts
of each painting on his website (flip-city.net).
Now that Cariou v. Prince is settled and Richard Prince (sort
of) declared victory in a battle for appropriation
of other artist's
work, it would be reasonable for him to move on,
work on a new project or even (now safely and guilt - free)
appropriate someone else's art.
Andy Warhol is the best - known practitioner
of appropriating images from popular culture, but his
work focused mainly on reproducing images; whereas
artists like Marisol Escobar, at the same time, incorporated objects bottles
of Coke and
other consumer items directly into their
works.
In this new series
of works, the
artist duo have
appropriated wall labels describing
other artists»
work, and transformed them into art
works in their own right.
His
work was also featured in many important group exhibitions, such as L'art vivant aux États - Unis (1970, Fondation Maeght, Saint - Paul, France), Contemporary Black
Artists in America (1971, Whitney Museum
of American Art), Lamp Black: Afro - American
Artists, New York and Boston (1973, Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston), Another Generation (1979, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York), Afro - American Abstraction (1981, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens), and The
Appropriate Object (1989, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo), among
others.
Recent
Work and
Other Myths combines
appropriated pages from The Originality
of the Avant - Garde and
Other Modernist Myths — a collection
of 15 essays by the influential American critic Rosalind E. Krauss — and screendumps from the
artist's Instagram account, where he has posted photos
of discarded items he has stumbled across in the street.
And it wasn't simply Italian or Roman art that these
artists incorporated into their
works — Merz was often a fan
of appropriating igloos or
other nomadic objects into his sculptures.
It aims to help those
artists emerge from the shadows
of the New York City art world by spreading the word about their own
work and by helping
others find
appropriate venues for what they are doing.
Artist Richard Prince is notorious in the art world for taking
other people's
work, «
appropriating» them as his own with various changes, and then selling them for large amounts
of dough.
, his famous 1963 picture
of a fighter plane being shot by another, and Drowning Girl, both
appropriated from contemporary comics, as well as the
Artist's Studio series which saw him bring his graphic, pop style to his own surroundings and
other real - life art
works.
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer best known for his practice
of re-photography —
appropriating existing
works previously made by
other artists.
While most
of the
work in the exhibition has been recently created and acquired, additional paintings culled from LACMA's collection illustrate how
artists have reanimated techniques and forms using
other sources that are
appropriated from popular culture, photography, and collage, essentially creating a new variation
of abstract painting.