appropriation

Examples of appropriation in the following topics:

• Conflicts

  • Destruction, mislabeling, appropriation, and repossession can contribute to conflicts surrounding the preservation of art.
  • Plunder, appropriation, and spoliation are related terms that describe the process of looting.
  • Dadaist and Surrealist works, for example, typically utilize a great deal of appropriation, as seen in Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q.
  • However, after that time is up, the work of art might be appropriated and used by others, thereby creating conflict.
  • The internet has further complicated issues surrounding ownership and appropriation, especially in art.

• Pop Art

  • In the mid-1950s, Jasper Johns began to appropriate popular abstract iconography for painting, thus allowing for a set of familiar associations to answer the need for a subject.
  • Lichtenstein used oil and Magna paint in his best known works, such as Drowning Girl (1963) , which was appropriated from the lead story in DC Comics' Secret Hearts #83.
  • Lichtenstein calls into question notions of appropriation while simultaneously blurring the lines between high and low art in this painting of a scene from a popular comic book.

• Academic Architecture

  • Beaux-Arts training made great use of agrafes (clasps that links one architectural detail to another), interpenetration of forms, "speaking architecture" (architecture parlante) in which supposed appropriateness of symbolism could be taken to literal-minded extremes.

• Fauvism

  • The vivid, unnatural colors led the critic Louis Vauxcelles to derisively dub their works as les Fauves, or "the wild beasts", which the artists then appropriated as the title for their movement.

• Basic Load-Bearing Construction

  • Depending on the type of building and the number of stories, load-bearing walls are gauged to the appropriate thickness in order to carry the weight above them.

• European Art in New Zealand

  • Others appropriated Māori artistic styles; Gordon Walters created many paintings and prints based on the koru.

• Samburu

  • As recently as the 1990s, wearing pants was considered by most to be a rather unmanly abandonment of cultural traditions, which would be done only when travel outside of home areas or some official business (e.g. with government offices) made it appropriate.

• Painting

  • Other modern movements cited as influential to postmodern art are conceptual art and the use of techniques such as assemblage, montage, bricolage, and appropriation.

• Conceptual Art

  • Duchamp's appropriation of a urinal as a piece of art challenged the prevailing definition of sculpture.

• Tomb of Ramose

  • The personal possessions in the tomb chamber were Hatnofer's alone, as they were all appropriate for a woman, and included a rich gilded funerary mask , a heart scarab, canopic jars, and papyri.