Appropriation (visual art)

Appropriation in visual art wis where an artist 'borrows' from a number of art sources, and places other peoples work in a new context AKA, recontextualisation.

Artists who have used appropriation

- Yasumasa Morimura
- Cindy Sherman
- Sherrie Levine
- Elaine Sturtevant
- Jim Stone
- Barbara Kruger
- Kelley Walker
- Richard Prince
- Wade Guyton
- Aleksandra Mir
- Dave Muller Category:art

Visual art

The visual arts are a class of artforms, including painting, sculpture, photography, and others, that focus on the creation of artworks which are primarily visual in nature. The visual arts are distinguished from the performing arts, language arts, culinary arts, and other such classes of artwork. The definition is not strict, and many artistic disciplines involve aspects of the visual arts as well other types. In Britain until recently the fine arts—painting, sculpture, printmaking, et cetera—were seen as distinct from craft disciplines such as applied art, design, textiles, and the various metalworking disciplines such as blacksmithing and jewellery. This distinction arose from the work of a group of artists led by William Morris known as the Arts and Crafts Movement whose political aim was to value vernacular artforms as much as high forms. The movement was at odds with modernists who sought to withhold the high arts from the masses by keeping them esoteric. The result of the conflict between the two groups was to politicise the products of what we now know as visual artists. British art schools made a clear distinction between the fine arts (a term that hints at their supposed superiority) and the crafts in such a way that a craftsperson could not be considered a practitioner of high art. Although this is no longer the case, the residue of inequality between the crafts or applied arts and the so-called fine arts still exists in some quarters. In Britain the term "visual arts" is suitably independent of these older, loaded concepts and as such is the preferred term for work across all the disciplines in question. A similar stigma exists in the US, where "arts and crafts" has a very particular meaning, denoting the sort of artwork first taught in elementary school and also (later in life) a variety of kitsch, household artwork. Most craftspeople are still seen as practicing something other than "fine art" among the traditional art school set, but, of course, can produce "high art", in any medium.

Common types of visual art

- Body art
- Ceramics
- Comics
- Concept art
- Decorative arts
- Depliage
- Design
- Drawing
- Film
- Found art
- Installation art
- Intervention art
- Graffiti
- Land art
- Light art
- Mail art
- Minimal Art
- Painting
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
- Sound art
- Textile art
- Video art

History of the visual arts

- History of art
- History of film
- History of design
- History of fashion
- History of painting
- History of photography
- History of sculpture

References

External links

- [http://www.artlex.com/ ArtLex] - online dictionary of visual art terms.
- [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm Art History Timeline] by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [http://people.msoe.edu/~mccrawt/resume/papers/HU438/mccrawt_hu438_art.pdf Tenability of the Distinction Between Arts and Crafts] - essay. (PDF)
- [http://www.passionforpaint.com/BudgetArtCollecting.html The (Budget) Wise Art Collector]
- Visual arts Category:Topic lists ko:미술 ja:視覚芸術

Yasumasa Morimura

Yasumasa Morimura (born in Osaka, Japan in 1951) is a Japanese appropriation artist. He graduated from Kyoto City University of Art in 1978. Since 1985, Yasumasa Morimura has primarily shown his work in international solo exhibitions, although he has been involved in various group exhibitions. Yasumasa Morimura borrows images from historical artists (ranging from Edouard Manet to Rembrandt to Cindy Sherman), and reproduces them as his own. Morimura often reproduces images in terms of political representation, touching on issues of gender, race, etc. Among others, Morimura's exhibitions have been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1992), the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jouy-en-Josas, France (1993), the Hara Art Museum in Hara, Japan (1994), the Guggenheim Museum (1994), and the Yokohama Museum of Art in Yokohama, Japan (1996). In his most recent and most extravagant reproduction, Morimura created a series of hybrid self-portraits modeled after the art of Frida Kahlo. Category:1951 births Category:Japanese artists Category:Contemporary artists

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman (born January 15, 1954) is a world-renowned American artist, currently working in New York. Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, she grew up in Huntington, New York on Long Island. She was educated at Buffalo State College; although she enrolled as a painting student, her exposure to the innovative ideas of her colleagues at the artists' space Hallwalls convinced her to switch to photography, a medium conducive to Conceptual art. Sherman works in series, typically photographing herself in a range of costumes, appearing as B-movie and European art film actresses, for example, in her landmark 70 photograph series, the Untitled Film Stills, (1977-1980). Her most recent series, dated 2003, features Sherman as "Clowns." Although Sherman does not consider her work feminist, many of her photo-series, like the 1982 "Centerfolds," call attention to the stereotyping of women in films, television and magazines. In 1989, in response to cuts to NEA funding and attempts to censor photographers Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano, Sherman produced the "Sex" series of photographs featuring pieced-together medical dummies in flagrante delicto. Like much of Sherman's work, many critics find the series both disturbing and funny. Sherman is not only the most successful female artist of the modern era, but one of the most successful artists of either sex in the late twentieth century. She is almost singlehandedly responsible for making the large-format photograph a viable high-art commodity. She has as much influence on younger artists as Andy Warhol did in his era. Sherman has also worked as a film director; her first film was Office Killer in 1997, starring Jeanne Tripplehorn. She played a cameo role in John Waters' film, Pecker. Sherman has been referenced by the Electroclash artists Chicks on Speed in the track "Spoken by Stephanie from Marseille, Yes I Do" from the 2000 K Records album The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases. In 1995, Sherman was the recipient of one of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowships, popularly known as the "Genius Awards." This fellowship grants $500,000 over 5 years, no strings attached, to important scholars in a wide range of fields, in order to encourage their future creative work.

Books

- (2004) Cindy Sherman: Centerfolds. Skarstedt Fine Art. ISBN 0970909020.
- (2003) Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills. Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 0870705075.
- (2002) Elisabeth Bronfen, et.al. Cindy Sherman: Photographic Works 1975-1995 (Paperback). Schirmer/Mosel. ISBN 388814809X.
- (2001) Early Work of Cindy Sherman. Glenn Horowitz Bookseller. ISBN 0965402037.
- (2000) Leslie Sills, et.al. In Real Life: Six Women Photographers. Holiday House. ISBN 0823414981.
- (2000) Amanda Cruz, et.al. Cindy Sherman: Retrospective (Paperback). Thames & Hudson. ISBN 050027987X.
- (1999) Essential, The: Cindy Sherman. Harry N Abrams. ISBN 0810958082.
- (1999) Shelley Rice (ed.) Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman. The MIT Press. ISBN 0262681064.

External links

- [http://www.cindysherman.com unofficial Cindy Sherman website]
- [http://elsa.photo.net/cindy.htm 1985 Review by Elsa Dorfman]

Interviews

- [http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue5/sherman.htm An Interview with Betsy Berne and pictures by Cindy Sherman, Tate Magazine] Sherman, Cindy Sherman, Cindy Sherman, Cindy

Elaine Sturtevant

Elaine Sturtevant, an American artist born 1930 in Lakewood, Ohio, has achieved recognition for her works that consist entirely of copies of other artists' works. Sturtevant turns the concept of originality on its head. All of her works are copies other artists'; none are originals. That is an original idea. Her work includes copies of Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Frank Stella, Felix Gonzalez-Torres. She masters painting, sculpture, photography and film in order to produce a full range of copies of the works of her chosen artists. In all cases, her decision to start copying an artist happened before those artists achieved broader recognition. Nearly all of the artists she chose to copy are today considered iconic for their time or style. This has given rise to discussions amongst art critics how it has been possible for Sturtevant to identify these now famous artists at such an early stage. Sturtevant, Elaine Sturtevant, Elaine Sturtevant, Elaine

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) is a photographer and guerilla artist from the United States. Kruger's work almost always consists of black-and-white photographs with overlaid captions set in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique. The phrases included in her work are usually declarative, and make common use of such pronouns as "you," "I," "we," and "they." Her creations are often critical of sexism and misogyny.For the past decade Kruger has created installations comprised of video, film, audio and projection. Enveloping the viewer with the seductions of direct address, her work is consistently about the kindnesses and brutalities of social life: about how we are to one another. Her work is described by H.W. Janson: :Kruger's works are direct and evoke an immediate response. Usually her style involves the cropping of a magazine or newspaper image cropped and enlarged in black and white. The enlargement of the image is done as crudely as possible to monumental proportions. A message is stenciled on the image, usually in white letters against a background of red. The text and image are unrelated in an effort to create anxiety by the audience that plays on the fears of society. (Janson, p. 992).

External links

- http://www.barbarakruger.com/index.php
- http://www.broadartfoundation.org/collection/kruger.html
- http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/feminism/kruger/kruger.htm
- http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/9747/kruger.html
- http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/visarts/globe/issue4/bkrutit.html

References

- Janson, H.W., Janson, Anthony F. History of Art. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. 6 edition. January 1, 2005. ISBN 0131828959 Kruger, Barbara Kruger, Barbara Kruger, Barbara Kruger, Barbara

Richard Prince

Richard Prince, (born 1949 in the Panama Canal Zone) is a American painter and photographer. Trained as a figure painter, Prince began creating collages containing photographs in 1975. His works have often been the subject of debates within the art world. His image, ‘Untitled (Cowboy), a re-photograph, constructed from cigarette advertisements, was the first ‘photograph’ to raise more than $1 m at auction when sold at Christie's New York in 2005. Starting in 1977, Prince created controversy by re-photographing four photographs which previously appeared in the New York Times. Within the art world, this became part of a major discussion concerning authorship and authenticity of photographic images, as well as photographic copyright issues. This continued into 1983, when his work Spiritual America featured a photo of Brooke Shields at the age of 10, standing in a bathtub, as an allusion to precocious sexuality and to the Alfred Stieglitz photograph by the same name. The display of this image led to lawsuits by Shields' mother and the original photographer, and led to further discussion within the art community, concerning the role of voyeurism within photography. His Jokes series (beginning 1986) concerns the sexual fantasies and sexual frustrations of middle-class America, using stand-up comedy and burlesque humour. Prince, Richard Prince, Richard

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Marxist Co-ordination Committee

Marxist Coordination Committee, political party in Jharkhand, India. MCC is based in the coal mining region of Dhanbad. Janwadi Kisan Sangram Samiti (Democratic Peasants Struggle Association) was formed after local communist leader A.K. Roy had been expelled from CPI(M). JKSS later converted into MCC. MCC is still led by A.K. Roy, who has been elected MP three times. A.K. Roy was active in the Jharkhand movement, and co-founder of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. As JMM developed into a political party, the relations soared. In 1980 A.K. Roy (then MP) and K.S. Chatterjee (Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly) were arrested under the National Security Act. In total Roy has been jailed four times. In 1998 the only Member of the Legislative Assembly of Bihar of MCC, Gurudas Chatterjee was murdered by the coal mafia. Chatterjee's son Arup Chatterjee took over his mandate after a by-poll.

External links

- [http://www.hindu.com/2004/04/17/stories/2004041702451200.htm The Hindu, Candidate Watch : A.K. Roy]
- [http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/20000416/ifr16016.html PTI: CBI to probe Bihar MLA's killing] Category:Indian political parties-Jharkhand Category:Communist parties of India

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