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Yasumasa Morimura in his Osaka studio 1990; photograph by Sally Larsen. An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Skull Ring), photograph by Yasumasa Morimura Yasumasa Morimura (森村 泰昌, Morimura Yasumasa, born June 11, 1951) is a contemporary Japanese performance and appropriation artist whose work encompasses photography, film, and live performance.
In art, appropriation is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. [1] The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical and performing arts).
Glenn Brown CBE (born 1966 in Hexham, Northumberland) is a British contemporary artist known for the use of appropriation in his paintings. Starting with reproductions from other artists' works, Glenn Brown transforms the appropriated image by changing its colour, position, orientation, height and width relationship, mood and/or size.
Kehinde Wiley is an American portrait painter who paints monumental works of art that captivate audiences with bold colors and strong views on racial power. [14] He is one of many contemporary artists throughout the world who hopes to shift racial power throughout the media using his art. [15]
Tavar Zawacki (b. 1981, California) is a Polish, Portuguese American abstract artist and internationally recognized visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. From 1996 to 2016, he created work under the pseudonym ABOVE, famous for the "ABOVE arrow" symbol, representing the empowering message to “Rise Above.”
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable and famous works of art in the world, and one of the most replicated and reinterpreted. Mona Lisa studio versions, copies or replicas were already being painted during Leonardo's lifetime by his own students and contemporaries. Some are claimed to be the work of Leonardo himself, and ...
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
Christine Ay Tjoe (born 27 September 1973) is an abstract expressionist painter from Bandung, Indonesia.Ay Tjoe's artwork style is mostly abstract, expressing human emotions and flawed figurative objects by using colors from primarily muted to bright hues.