Janoel Lucañas BSME

Art appreciation

Define the following: Narratives, Appropriation, Borrowing and Ownership of the artist.

NARRATIVES: How Artists Tell Their Stories Using subject matter – the objects and figures
that inhabit a work of art -- as a vehicle for communicating stories and other cultural
expressions, is a traditional function of visual art. The narrative tradition is strong in many
cultures throughout the world.

Appropriation: In terms of art, appropriation is the practice of using pre-existing objects and
images in an artwork without really altering the originals.

Borrowing: Appropriation refers to the act of borrowing or reusing existing elements within a
new work. Images and elements of culture that have been appropriated commonly involve
famous and recognisable works of art, well known literature, and easily accessible images from
the media.

Ownership of the artist: Ownership. Copyright is generally owned by the artist or creator of
the work, but it can vary depending on factors such as employment or licensing agreements –
see Ownership of Copyright for more information. When you purchase an original artwork, you
will only own copyright if there is an agreement to that effect.

Describe each Cultural appropriation:

• Objective appropriation: Object appropriation occurs when the possession of a tan-

gible work of art (such as a sculpture or a painting) is transferred from members of one
culture to members of another culture. The removal of the friezes from the Parthenon by
Lord Elgin is often regarded as a paradigm case of object appropriation.
• Content: Content in a work of art refers to what is being depicted and might be helpful
in deriving a basic meaning. It appears in the visual arts in several forms , all of which
may be figurative (realistic) or abstract (distorted).
• Style: Style refers to a particular kind of appearance in works of art. It’s a characteristic
of an individual artist or a collective relationship based on an idea, culture or artistic
movement.
• Motif appropriation: is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no
transformation applied to them. ... Inherent in our understanding of appropriation is
the concept that the new work re-contextualizes whatever it borrows to create the new
work.
• Subject appropriation: Appropriation involves taking but artists who engage in subject
appropriation do not, in any obvious sense, take anything from insiders. A subject matter
is not some- thing a culture has produced in the same way that its members have created
stories, sculptures, or songs that an outsider might appropriate.7