Tag: appropriation
An artist who goes by the nom de guerre Mercury has pushed the concept of appropriation to its limit by finishing three discarded Peter Halley canvasses. The painstaking works are somewhere between reproduction, satire, collaboration, and theft. They can be seen for the first time at Mercury’s show “In Appropriate,” which opens tomorrow at a […]
For their new project, Italian collective IOCOSE commissioned some work from copy artists, made famous by the cheap reproduction outpour from the Dafen Oil Painting Village. A Contemporary Portrait of the Internet Artist is a series of traditional canvas paintings based on watermarked, copyrighted Getty images. The chain involved practices that are quite common nowadays in the production of art: exploitation and […]
A Los Angeles federal district court judge recently ruled against the inexplicably famous street artist Mr. Brainwash in a copyright infringement case involving a 1977 portrait of Sid Vicious by Dennis Morris. In rejecting his motion for summary judgement on the grounds of “fair use,” he also effectively ruled the so-called “appropriation art” mediocre. According to […]
