What is Appropriation Art?

on an architectural, conceptual, or social

level.
It also creates a high level of intimacy
Copying Art to Convey a New Message
between itself and the viewer as it exists
 To “appropriate” is to take not as a precious object to be merely
possession into something. looked at but as a presence within the
 Appropriation artists deliberately overall context of its container whether
copy images to take possession that is a building, museum, or
of them in their art. They want to designated room. Artworks are meant to
recognize the image they copy. evoke a mood or a feeling, and as such
 This artistic approach does stir up ask for a commitment from the viewer.
controversy because some
people view appropriation as
unoriginal or theft. Due to this, it Installation Art Key Ideas
important to understand why
 Installation art champions a shift
artists appropriate the artwork of
in focus from what art visually
others.
represents to what it
 Borrowing of an image for this communicates. Installation artists
new context is called are less focused on presenting an
“Recontextualization.” aesthetically pleasing object to
Examples of Art Appropriation viewers as they are enfolding that
viewer into an environment or set
 Image of Campbell Soup of systems of their own creation.
 Sherry Levine’s After Walker  Installation artists are
Evans” in 1981 preoccupied with making art a
 Bacchus Restored 1992, less isolated concept - by
Kathleen Gilje appropriated installing work beyond the
Caravaggio’s Bacchus galleries and museums and by
 Jeff Koons “String of Puppies,” using more utilitarian components
appropriated from Art Rogers such as found objects, industrial
“Puppies and everyday items,
commonplace materials, and
Installation Art
technologies of the populous.
Installation art is a term generally used This movement has broadened
to describe artwork located in three- the scope of what qualifies as
dimensional interior space as the word artwork.
"install" means putting something inside
Immersive art is an immersive art space
of something else. It is often site-specific
is about creating a holistic experience
- designed to have a particular
for the audience. While traditional
relationship, whether temporary or
museums focus on visual arts,
permanent, with its spatial environment
immersive art spaces often seek to
activate other senses such as touch, such as sculpture, stencil graffiti, rock
hearing, smell and sometimes taste. balancing, and other art forms.
These spaces can include anything from Installations can be in urban areas,
art installations to an entire building or remote natural settings, or underwater.
street made by one or several artists.
Influence. Art historians study which
While the location may be permanent,
artists might influence others by
the art may change periodically or
examining the descriptive attributes of
regularly.
art. However, finding influences is a
Large scale art is enveloping the viewer sophisticated process that involves
and dominating interior spaces, large studying the historical, social, and
scale paintings create an impact. Artists personal context related to the artist and
and their patrons have utilized size to to the art.
display power and prestige to impress
Dada. Dadaism is an artistic movement
their audiences.
in modern art that started around World
In 18th century Europe, history painting War I. Its purpose was to ridicule the
was considered to be the most important meaninglessness of the modern world.
genre, above portraiture, still life, and Its peak was 1916 to 1922, and it
landscape, and thus was executed on influenced surrealism, pop art, and punk
bigger canvases by artists like Jacques- rock. It went against the standards of
Louis David and Benjamin West. society. The name itself is reflection that
Inspired by their the large-scale public the art was designed to seem
murals for the Work Progress meaningful when it is in fact a reflection
Administration (WPA), abstract of how overvalued societal norms and
expressionist artists like Jackson Pollock expectations had become. The word
and Lee Krasner painted on large scale "Dada" may be an allusion to an infant's
canvases that could take up entire walls, first words, such as "Mama," and thus a
interpreted by some to represent the reference to the failures of our ancestors
freedom of American expression. to convey the meaning of life, create
Contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley meaning within life.
paints monumental portraits of young
Conceptualism. Conceptual art is an art
black men in scenes and poses
for which the idea (or concept) behind
appropriated from western art history to
the work is more important than the
critique and reclaim the identity politics
finished art object. It emerged as an art
of the genre.
movement in the 1960s and the term
Site-specific artworks are created to usually refers to art made from the mid-
exist in a certain place. Typically, the 1960s to the mid-1970s. Conceptual art
artist takes the location into account can be - and can look like - almost
while planning and creating the artwork. anything. This is because unlike a
Site-specific art is produced both by painter or sculptor who will think about
commercial artists, and independently, how best they can express their idea
and can include some instances of work using paint or sculptural materials and
techniques, a conceptual artist uses comes to art because it blurs the line of
whatever materials and whatever form is reality and that of imagination.
most appropriate to putting their idea
Georges Mathieu, French painter (1921
across – this could be anything from a
– 2012) He started action painting
performance to a written description.
wherein the process is seen real-time. In
Although there is no one style or form
this scenario, the process is more
used by conceptual artists, from the late
important than the finished product.
1960s certain trends emerged.
Performance Art is a term that
What is Improvisation Art
emerged in the 1960s to describe a
diverse range of live presentations by
artists, including actions, movements,
doing something without prior
gestures, and choreography. It is often
preparation
preceded by, includes or is later
within the present context, it has represented through various forms of
become an integral part of the arts video, photography, objects, written
documentation, or oral and physical
a reaction against the stiffness in the transmission.
arts in the 20th century
Fusion in Art: Classical Music and Films
There is a call for liberation from
monotony that aims to rekindle the Fantasia 2000. 1999 American animated
creative spirits of people in the arts. film by Walt Disney feature animation
Infusing spontaneity and improvisation and Walt Disney Pictures and released
adds up to the totality of the work of art. by Buena Vista Pictures. Produced by
During the 1960s, art improvisation has Roy E. Disney and Donald W. Ernst, it is
taken forms in the galleries around New the 38th Disney animated feature film
York City. and the sequel to Fantasia (1940). Like
its predecessor, Fantasia 2000 consists
Performance arts, dance, and of animated segments set to pieces of
visual arts were combined to create new classical music.
forms of artworks using a new medium.
These performances were known as the Program. The film begins with the sound
“Happenings” which later on paved the of an orchestra tuning and Deems
way for modern body art and Taylor’s introduction from Fantasia.
performance art. Allows for a certain Panels showing various segments from
extent of freedom for the artist to fantasia fly in outer space and form the
improvise and allow the subject to set and stage for an orchestra.
perform and embody the artwork itself. Musicians take their seats and tune up
To a certain extent, it allows the artist to and animators draw at their desks
explore and think about how the before James Levine approaches the
audience can actually be a part of the conductor’s podium and signals the
work in itself. Improvisation may have beginning of the first piece.
been a revolutionary concept when it
Symphony No. 5 (first movement) by is the only one featured in both Fantasia
Ludwig van Beethoven. Abstract and Fantasia 2000.
patterns and shapes that resemble
Pomp and Circumstance – Marches
butterflies in various colorful shades,
1,2,3 and 4 by Edward Elgar. Based on
tints, and hues explore a world of light
the story of Noah’s Ark from the Book of
and darkness whilst being pursued by a
Genesis, Donald Duck is Noah’s
swarm of black bats. The world is
assistant and Daisy Duck is Donald’s
ultimately conquered by light. Introduced
wife. Donald is given the task of
by archival recordings by deems Taylor.
gathering the animals to the Ark and
Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respigni. A misses, loses, and reunites with Daisy in
family of humpback whales is able to fly. the process.
The calf is separated from his parents
Firebird Suite – 1919 Version by Igor
and he becomes trapped in an iceberg.
Stravinsky. A sprite is awoken by her
Eventually, he finds his way out with his
companion, an elk, and accidentally
mother’s help.
wakes the Firebird, a fiery spirit of
Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin. destruction in a nearby volcano who
Set in New York City in the 1930s and destroys the forest and seemingly the
designed in the style of Al Hirschfeld’s Sprite. The Sprite survives and the elk
known caricatures of the time, the story encourages her to restore the forest to
follows four individuals: Duke, Joe, its normal state.
Rachel, and John, who wish for a better
life.
Piano Concerto No.2, Allegro, Opus 102
by Dmitri Shostakovich. Based on the
fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” by
Hans Christian Andersen, a broken toy
soldier with one leg falls in love with a
toy ballerina and protects her from an
evil jack-in-the-box. Unlike the original
story, this version has a happy ending.
The Carnival of Animals (Le Carnival de
Animaux), Finale by Camille Saint-
Saens. A flock of flamingos tries to force
a slapstick member, who enjoys playing
with a yo-yo, to engage in the flock’s
“dull” routines. Introduced by James Earl
Jones with animator Eric Goldberg.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Paul
Dukas. Based on the poem “Der
Zauberlerhing” by Goethe, the segment