Sturtevant Appropriation Art

Elaine Sturtevant Art - Elaine Sturtevant's personal work of art - Is it possible to make a very personal work of art by replicating others? If you see the work of the American conceptual artist, Elaine Sturtevant, you can only say "Yes"! Our guest today has been repeating works by stars in the art market like Warhol or Duchamp for decades. An exhibition in Paris features a selection of her most important works. Elaine Sturtevant, an American artist born 1930 in Lakewood, Ohio, has achieved recognition for her works that consist entirely of copies of other artists' works. Sturtevant turns the concept of originality on its head. All of her works are copies of the works of other artists; none is an original. Her work includes copies of works by Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Frank Stella, Felix Gonzalez-Torres. She masters painting, sculpture, photography and film in order to produce a full range of copies of the works of her chosen artists. In most cases, her decision to start copying an artist happened before those artists achieved broader recognition. Nearly all of the artists she chose to copy are today considered iconic for their time or style. This has given rise to discussions amongst art critics on how it has been possible for Sturtevant to identify these now famous artists at such an early stage. On June 4, 2011, Sturtevant received the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 54th Venice Biennale. Elaine Sturtevant, est une artiste américaine née en 1930 à Lakewood (Ohio), considérée comme l'inspiratrice du mouvement appropriationniste. Elaine Sturtevant retourne complètement le concept d'originalité. Toutes ses œuvres sont de copies de celles d'autres artistes, aucune n'est originale. Son travail comprend des copies des œuvres de Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Frank Stella, Félix González-Torres. Elle maîtrise aussi bien la peinture, la sculpture, la photographie et le cinéma afin d'effectuer une gamme complète de copies des travaux des artistes qu'elle a choisis. La plupart du temps, elle copie les artistes avant que ceux-ci n'obtiennent une large reconnaissance. Presque tous les artistes qu'elle a choisi de copier sont aujourd'hui considérés comme des incontournables de leur temps ou de style. Les critiques d'art se posent la question de savoir comment elle faisait pour déceler à un stade aussi précoce des artistes aujourd'hui célèbres . En 2011, elle obtient le Lion d'Or de la Biennale de Venise Elle vit actuellement à Paris. Quelques expositions 1992. Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein 2004. Elaine Sturtevant - The Brutal Truth, Francfort, Museum für Moderne Kunst 2006. New York, Whitney Biennal 2008. Sturtevant, Consortium de Dijon 2009. Sturtevant: Modes of Thought, Londres, Tate Modern 2010. Sturtevant : The Razzle Dazzle of Thinking., Paris, MAM 2011 Biennale de Venise Appropriation is a fundamental aspect in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical). Appropriation can be understood as "the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work." In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of man-made visual culture. Strategies include "re-vision, re-evaluation, variation, version, interpretation, imitation, proximation, supplement, increment, improvisation, prequel... pastiche, paraphrase, parody, homage, mimicry, shan-zhai, echo, allusion, intertextuality and karaoke." The term appropriation refers to the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work (as in 'the artist uses appropriation') or refers to the new work itself (as in 'this is a piece of appropriation art'). Appropriation practice involves the 'appropriation' of ideas, symbols, artefacts, image, sound, objects, forms or styles from other cultures, from art history, from popular culture or other aspects of man made visual or non visual culture. Inherent in our understanding of appropriation is the concept that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows to create the new work. In most cases the original 'thing' remains accessible as the original, without change. Anthropologists have studied the process of cultural appropriation, or cultural borrowing (which includes art and urbanism), as part of cultural change and contact between different cultures. The terms of appropriation and variation on a theme are sometimes used interchangeably.

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[novayne]

@novayne Also I've read several articles and seen your work, it's absolute garbage. What you do is no different than what poor chinese boys do replicating famous paintings to sell at a minimal profit on the internet.

[novayne]

Elaine Sturtevant, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may REASON have mercy on your soul.

[TheMojavegreen1]

What a joke.