APPROPRIATION IN ART

WHAT IS APPROPRIATION?

 To allocate or assign (something) in a new

different way re appropriate funds previously
allocated for maintenance.
 Allocation, allotment, grant, subsidy, annuity
Appropriation in ART

 - it refers to the practice of artists using

pre-existing objects or images in their art
with little transformation of the original
APPROPRIATION IN ART
 ARTWORKS CAN BE APPROPRIATED IN TWO
WAYS:
1. Artist can appropriate artistic content, which
includes artistic elements, such as motifs,
styles, genres, and similar elements and
complete artworks.
2. Appropriation of art can also be done by
individuals who adopt items that they
consider to be artworks specifically tangible
creations of one culture.
The Son of Man
 Title: The Son of Man
 Artist: Rene Magritte

 Year completed: 1964

 Medium: Oil on Canvass

 Artist statement about the Painting:

“Everything we see hides another thing; we always

want to see what is hidden by what we see . There is an
interest in that in which is hidden and which the visible
does not show us. This interest can take the form of a
quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict , one might say,
between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is
present.”
The son of Man
The Son of Selfie
 Title: The Son of Selfie
 Artist: Rogel Bert Baillo

 Year Completed: 2017

 Medium: Digital Photography

 Message of the Artist:

“Each artwork is like a time machine; it can send

a person in the present to the future. Here in this
picture the artist substantially represents the
current trend during this time, which is taking a
selfie using a currently trendy device , the iphone”.
The Son of Selfie
Cultural Appropriation
 It is the appropriation that occurs across
boundaries of cultures.
3 Types of Cultural Appropriation
1. Object Appropriation
2. Content Appropriation
3. Subject Appropriation
1. Object Appropriation
 Object appropriation occurs when the
possession of a tangible work of art (such as
a sculpture or a painting) is transferred from
members of one culture to members of
another culture.
2. Content Appropriation
 It refers to adoption of works of art that are
intangible.

Example: short stories, poetry, songs, musical

compositions and others
2 Categories of Content
Appropriation
1. Style Appropriation
2. Motif Appropriation
Style Appropriation
 Artist involved in style appropriation do not
replicate the works created by a person or a
group of person from another culture.
However, they use the elements from those
works from another culture in creating their
own works.
Motif Appropriation
 Motif appropriation happens when artists are
inspired by the art from a different culture,
but they do not produce artworks using
exactly the same style.
3. Subject Appropriation
 Subject appropriation occurs when a subject
matter from another culture is appropriated.
ISSUES ON COPYRIGHT,
APPROPRIATION AND OWNERSHIP
3. Subject Appropriation
Issues on Copyright, Appropriation
and Ownership