Appropriation

 Appropriation is the artistic practice or technique of reworking images from well-known paintings, photographs, etc., in one's own work.

Artists who use appropriation

Andy Warhol

"Marilyn" by Andy Warhol

 



 

 

 

Marcel Duchamp

 





L.H.O.O.Q by Marcel Duchamp

 

Duchamp used aproppriation by taking  Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and putting a mustache on her. In this way he directly turns the image into an androgenous looking figure.

 

Robert Colesscott

 

Left: Robert Colesscott, Les Demoiselles d’Alabama, 19855; Right: Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 19076

Romare Beardon