Selecting an image for appropriation:
Answer the following questions in relation to the art work you have chosen.
1. Record the details of the original artwork you have chosen for your print, including: the title, the artist's name, the date of the piece and what media was used.
2. Answer the following questions concerning your chosen art work:
Subjective Response:
a) What do I see in the artwork?
b) What do I feel?
c) What does this artwork remind me of?
Formal observations:
a) What materials and techniques have been used?
b) Discuss the composition. Where does your eye travel to when you look at the art work? Why?
c) What are the relevant visual elements: color, tone, texture, line, shape? Describe them.
Cultural context:
a) What country and time does the artwork belong to?
b) Does it belong to an art movement or style?
c) Does it represent a culture - class, gender, politics, economics, and/or technology?
Appropriation: Part I
