Live Journal. Series 8. Week 30-5. "Appropriation"

[jacq22]

Appropriation.

Quote.

‘Sherry Levine's After Walker Evans (1981) is a photograph of a Walker Evans photograph. She is challenging the concept of ownership: if she photographed the photograph, whose photograph was it, really? And she is addressing the predominance of male artists in the textbook version of art history. Sherry Levine is a feminist

Comments

[m_malcontent]

Nice little entry as a performing artist, I "steal" all the time. Tones of voice, mannerisms....I have even been around enough to see some young actors steal from me. It's all good.

[halfshellvenus]

Such interesting questions! I think a photograph of a photograph is not art. Navel-gazing yes, but not art.

I so want to paint as they do!, and if I copy it, am I wrong?This is a different question to me, partly because in painting, some of what you learn is technique of color and brush stroke, and there's a long tradition of copying Masters' art to learn from it. You could try hundreds of times to master the combination of Van Gogh's brushstrokes AND color mix, and still miss all over the place. Matching the color attack and layering of pointillism would be difficult for other reasons! The smoothness of an artist like Rembrandt is a wholly different territory of new techniques

[beldarzfixon]

I think of your painting as "yours" as it was your work, you who were inspired, and you are open about your inspiration -- no fraud intended. I like it. And I like this essay.

[jacq22]

Thanks to all my friends.... Just home yesterday from hospital. 6th day.

[frecklestars]

A lovely sentiment that I think all artists can relate to.

[jem0000000]

I think in art, you draw or paint other people's images to learn, and I think as long as you're selling it as your work and a copy, it's okay.

*hugs* Glad you're home, and I wish you the best of luck on your recovery.