Tuesday, February 03, 2015

"It's important to realize that all visual culture is fair game for artistic content ..."

". . . ‘appropriation' isn't a ‘kind' of work, it's almost all art. When making a painting or a print or a sculpture, it's nearly impossible to make something without thinking of something else. A good reminder that when dealing with images 1) once an image is used, it isn't dead. it can be recontextualized, redistributed, reimagined. 2) It should have several lives and exist in different scenarios."

A quote from one of the artists involved in this story by Brian Boucher at artnet:  When Is Artist-on-Artist Theft Okay?