Week 7

Find an example of an idea/image/etc being ‘appropriated’. Look for media or advertising for examples. Do you think this example is ‘appropriation’, as we defined in the context of the artistic world, or do you think it could/does border on plagiarism or copyright issues?

Andy Warhol
Sixteen Jackies
1964
acrylic, enamel on canvas
unframed 80.375 x 64.375 x inches
Art Center Acquisition Fund, 1968
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / ARS, New York

More Information

“The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away and the better and emptier you feel.”--Andy Warhol, 1975

"For Warhol and fellow Pop artists, reproducing images from popular culture was the visual means for expressing detachment from emotions, an attitude they regarded as characteristic of the 1960s. Like droning newscasts, repetition dissipates meaning and with it the capacity of images to move or disturb. Warhol created 16 Jackies in response to the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, an event whose mass-media coverage reached an unparalleled number of people."

http://schools.walkerart.org/arttoday/artwork.wac?id=2363&wid=422&num=0

This particular art work is an appropriated visual. I don't think that this work in particular is a form of plagiarism, rather it is an appropriated version of a still photograph. Warhol uses many famous photos of celebrities and puts his own twist to the photo. The photos that were used in his artwork are open sourced photos that are available to everyone due to their high distribution. To me his work is more commemorative, so he gets away with using other photographers work. Because of his well known name, I'm sure photographers would be more than flattered for him to ue his work as a basis of his own.

Warhols work is deffinitley on the lower scale of appropriation compared to other artists such as the directors of the commercials shown in class today. I think his form of appropriated art is much different to the ones shown in class. Warhol takes something old, puts a spin on a it and makes something new, creatively and doesn't try to hide the fact he is using another artists work. Where as some of the adds on television today that are well and truly appropriated from other works don't do this. Hence the large law suits!