The 3 Steps For Appropriation Art:

1. Pick an artist or style you like

2. Get inspired by their work

3. Use their work to inspire your own

I have been thinking about this process a lot recently as I’ve been building a framing business, and I have found that it works for more than art. In fact, I would say it is the process of any great artist or entrepreneur.

Appropriation art is the process of using other artists’ work and turning it into your own. This can be done in any medium and the process can be as long or as short as you want. It can be a simple idea like taking a painting that someone has created and adding or changing something small or large.

Tennis shoes sitting on top of a canvas by Andy Warhol, became an artwork by Damien Hirst when he added a stuffed animal resting atop the tennis shoes. The original meaning of Warhol’s painting was about wealth and high-class living. Hirst’s artwork takes this concept one step further, indicating that even the lower class can be wealthy if they have access to objects that once belonged to celebrities.

The fact that this piece sold for $19 million proves that appropriation art can sell for millions of dollars per piece. However, it is important to note that most appropriation artists do not make millions from their pieces, but rather $200-$2000 per piece depending on how famous they are.*

Any time that you use someone else’s art, it is a challenge. You have to assess what they are putting out, as well as your own work. You have to ask yourself if it is something that you would enjoy seeing or reading, and then try to make it something that you would enjoy creating. This may not be an easy process.

Trying to figure out the best way to represent someone else’s work can be very time consuming and challenging. However, if done right, the end product will be very rewarding for both you and the artist that you are trying to represent.

Before you start appropriating some other artist’s work, there are a few steps that you need to do first in order to make sure that your final work will stand up to scrutiny and will be accepted by the public.

Hey there! I’m an artist and today I want to talk to you about how you can use other artists’ work in your projects.

How do you know when it’s ok?

There are 3 questions to ask yourself when you’re trying to determine whether or not something is ok to use in your art:

1) Is the piece widely available? If you can find the piece that you want to use with a simple google search, then it’s probably not ok for you to use. However if you find a little known painting by a famous painter that is only available in a few obscure books, then go for it!

2) Does the piece have a primary purpose other than being viewed as art? For example, is it part of an informational poster or book cover? If so then it’s probably not appropriate for appropriation. But if it’s just hanging on the wall in an art gallery then feel free to take it!

3) Does the piece have a meaning behind it that isn’t immediately obvious? For example, if there is text accompanying the image that describes how the subject of the image has been wronged, or how they are suffering, or how they are living their life…in short

Artists, collectors, curators and audiences will tell you the person that created the work is very important in conceptual art. It’s easy to agree with them when you see works by Damien Hirst or Jeff Koons. Both artists have been accused of being trendsetters and appropriating other artist’s works into their own pieces.

Appropriation art can be a tricky subject and one that is full of controversy. Is it right for an artist to take someone else’s work, especially if they are a famous artist? If a lesser-known artist uses someone else’s work, should they be held on the same standards as those that are more well known? These questions do not have easy answers. But there are ways to try and figure out if something is appropriation art or not.

The first step in figuring out if an artwork is appropriation art or not is to know what it means to appropriate. Appropriation art is taking parts of another artist’s work and using it in your own against their will. The second thing to consider is how new the piece of work looks like compared to the original piece from which it was taken. The final thing to consider is if the artist copied pieces of another person

Here is a step by step tutorial for the process of taking an image from the Internet and using it in your own artwork.

1.) Find inspiration

Searching the web is one way to find images that you can use to make artwork. Searching on Google, Bing, or whatever search engine you like is a good place to start. Don’t forget to check out Google Images, Flickr, and Deviant Art as well. If you’re looking for an illustration of a particular idea or scene, try searching for that term along with “Illustration” or “Artist” or “Painting.” Example: If I am looking for artwork about cats I would search for: “cat illustration artist painting.” If I want to find cat art that includes kittens I would search for: “cat illustration artist painting kittens.”

TIP: When searching with Google Images be sure to click on the “Size” tab because each size of each image may be different.

2.) Locate & Download

Once you find an image you like you need to save it so that you can use it in your own artwork. Each website has its own procedure for saving images (most browsers have tools built in), but here is a general overview of how to