To appropriate is to take possession of something. Appropriation artists deliberately copy images to take possession of them in their art. They are not stealing or plagiarizing. They are not passing off these images as their very own. Appropriation artists want the viewer to recognize the images they copy, and they hope that the viewer will bring all of his/her original associations with the image to the artist's new context, be it a painting, a sculpture, a collage, a combine or an entire installation. Some people may think that appropriation art is stealing another persons work, but rather the artist is actually borrowing the art work and making more meaning come out of the picture.
Installation art, is a differnt type of art work, but in some ways I actually like them, but I do not like how they are from different artist, I do believe that these artist are in actually stealing the first art work. If the artist who first orginally wanted that art to have that meaning, then he would have done it that way, that is why I do not think it is right for people to take a piece of art and "recontextualize" it.
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