After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.
Sometimes art imitates life.
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.
We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.
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