Sentence examples for artists appropriate from inspiring English sources
Among the first shows will be "Pre-Columbian Remix," which considers how contemporary Latin American artists appropriate imagery from ancient American cultures, and "Coney: Night Maze," an installation by Donna Dennis inspired by the Cyclone roller coaster in Coney Island.
It is the handiwork of two contemporary artists (Virgil Marti made the chandelier and Jim Isermann created the decals), though together it reads like an essay in postmodern aesthetics — distinctions between art and popular culture are blurred, while both artists appropriate freely from past decorative styles and designs.
(The Pelham Art Center's show, which surveyed the way artists appropriate materials of home design to make art, ran from Sept. 15 to Oct. 28th, but images of the works are included in the exhibition catalog published jointly by the three centers).
Appropriation art is great, but sometimes it can feel like artists appropriate for the sole sake of shocking audiences.
All those male pop artists appropriated objects associated with women's work.
Mr. Freeman's work is yet another example of artists appropriating recent technology for making art.
A cover article this weekend about the legality of visual artists' appropriating the images of others misstates the action the Supreme Court took in a 1994 case regarding the group 2 Live Crew's sampling of a Roy Orbison song.
The celebration of the kitchen as the locus of the American dream spilled over into Pop Art, especially in its early years, when artists appropriated images of soda pop and soup cans as well as a general just-mopped, mess-free look evocative of the suburbs.
Dada artists appropriated and mocked the imagery and language of mechanized bourgeois European society they saw as a root cause of World War I. Fast forward a century, and technological advancement married to global capitalism has only cemented our obsessive cultural bond with change: "What new features will the iPhone give us next?" cry out voices from every continent.
Can a white artist appropriate transformatively?
