Appropriation

What is appropriation?

Appropriation in art involves using pre-existing images or objects with little or no modification. This technique has played a significant role across various art forms, including visual arts, music, performance, and literature. In visual arts, appropriation refers to the practice of adopting, sampling, recycling, or borrowing elements—or even entire forms—of existing visual culture, integrating them into new works to create meaning or critique.
Methamphetamine

Damien Hirst

Methamphetamine, 1984

Limited Edition Print

Etching

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Figure 7, Black Numerals Series

Jasper Johns

Figure 7, Black Numerals Series, 1968

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

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Söhne der Sonne I

Jorg Immendorf

Söhne der Sonne I, 1997/2003

Limited Edition Print

Linocut

EUR 2,100

Söhne der Sonne II

Jorg Immendorf

Söhne der Sonne II, 1997/2003

Limited Edition Print

Linocut

EUR 2,100

Myths: Mammy, II.262

Andy Warhol

Myths: Mammy, II.262, 1981

Limited Edition Print

Screen-print

USD 35,000 - 40,000

Blackglama (Judy Garland)

Andy Warhol

Blackglama (Judy Garland), 1985

Limited Edition Print

Screen-print

USD 35,000 - 40,000

Snigger, from Engravings with Sounds

John Baldessari

Snigger, from Engravings with Sounds, 2015

Limited Edition Print

Inkjet print

USD 5,625

Seascape No 1

Roy Lichtenstein

Seascape No 1, 1964

Limited Edition Print

Screen-print

USD 42,000

The Stars and Stripes at the Speed of Light

James Rosenquist

The Stars and Stripes at the Speed of Light, 2004

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

USD 8,200

Cathedral Print: Duomo

Damien Hirst

Cathedral Print: Duomo, 2007

Limited Edition Print

Screen-print

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Jumps Out at You, No?

Jim Dine

Jumps Out at You, No?, 1993

Limited Edition Print

Etching

USD 14,000 - 16,000

Pulp Fiction

Banksy

Pulp Fiction, 2004

Limited Edition Print

Screen-print

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Victory Over Death Hand Finished Print

Damien Hirst

Victory Over Death Hand Finished Print, 2008

Limited Edition Print

Mixed Media

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Water (H6-9)

Damien Hirst

Water (H6-9), 2020

Limited Edition Print

Giclée printing

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Gabriel from the Archangels H15-4

Damien Hirst

Gabriel from the Archangels H15-4, 2021

Limited Edition Print

Mixed Media

GBP 18,000 - 23,400

Blizzard H13-10 from Where The Land Meets The Sea

Damien Hirst

Blizzard H13-10 from Where The Land Meets The Sea, 2023

Limited Edition Print

Photograph

GBP 5,500 - 7,100

Environmental art

Environmental art is a collective term that refers to a wide range of artistic practices and works that engage with historical and ecological themes. The term often encompasses ecological concerns, although it is not exclusively defined by them. Environmental art acknowledges and appreciates the early history of the environmental art movement, including works with activist themes and those celebrating the connection between nature and the artist through the use of natural materials.

Comic Strip art

Comic strip art refers to artwork that utilizes the subject matter and commercial printing techniques found in comic strips. In the 1960s, a group of artists began creating paintings that incorporated Ben-Day dots—commonly used in comics and advertising—to produce highly graphic designs in bright colors, using traditional art media.

Photorealism

Photorealism is a genre of art or artistic movement that involves drawing, painting, and other graphic media in which the artist carefully studies a photograph and attempts to reproduce it as realistically as possible in another medium. While the term can broadly describe any artwork created in this manner, it specifically refers to a group of painters and paintings in the U.S. art movement that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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