Friday, March 10, 2017

OUGD505 - Studio Brief 02 - Appropriation Seminar

Marcel Duchamp Urinal and L.H.O.O.Q.

Hannah Hoch - Cut with a kitchen knife through the beer-belly of the weimar republic

Raoul Haussmann - ABCD (self portrait) (1923)

Richard Pettibone - Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe

people like Richard Pettibone, Roy Lichtenstein and Elaine Sturtevant re-appropriated the already appropriated work of Andy Warhol - (Lichtenstein appropriated existing comic books strips)

Andy Warhol embraced this culture of re-appropriating and artists using whatever they could get a hold of as fuel for their practice

Any Warhol faced huge problems with plagiarism but it's not a talked about aspect of his practice because he paid them off

Shapard Fairey had the sam issue with his Obama Hope campaign, although he claimed his image was a combination of multiple photographs from multiple sources and therefore had no origin


David La Chappelle - Amanda as Warhol's Marilyn (2002) - not a direct rip-off but he appropriates the style and vernacular of Warhol's images


Walker Evans - Alabama tenant Farmer's Wife (1936) (photograph of farmers and rural labourers during the great depression)

Sherrie Levine - After Walker Evans (1979) photographed Walker Evan's original photographs as a comment on not only Evan's use of the 'men' within his work, but also the idea of ownership and images that are brought into the public's consumption

Michael Mandiberg - AfterSherrieLevine.com - Levine commented on how exclusive and fine art photographs can become democratized , but Mandiberg comment on the value of fine art images in the face of the internet. He made all of Levine's images available to download from his website along with a certificate of authenticity for his scan of the image.



Appropriation in Fine Art:

To question authorship and authenticity

To question what art is or can be

To investigate process and making

To question the value and meaning of mass culture



Andy Warhol discovered Jean Michael Basquiat and made him a big name - appropriation of people from outside the art world

Tracy Ma - Matter Zine - using images to twist meanings or harness their existing power to her own benefit

Tracy Ma - Bloomberg Businessweek collage covers



Cultural Appropriation:

Western culture employing and marketing symbols and icons from other cultures for their own use without having an appreciation of the origins of the culture

Sanaa Hamid, 2013

Gigi Hadid Vogue cover



Parody:

Banksy - Kate (2005) - politicised 

Adbusters - Absolut Impotence 

Bonnie and Clyde - God Bless Agyness Deyne (2011)



Pastiche:

Stranger Things title sequence - typeface lifted from Stephen King book covers, show as a whole lifts tropes from a wide range of other tv shows and films

Stranger Things poster references 80's posters of Star Wars and Indiana Jones