GETTING STARTED
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FORMATIVE FRUIT DRAWING
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Appropriation. What does it mean for art's sake?
POSSIBLE ARTISTS & EXAMPLES
Mitsuru Watanabe
Mitsuru Watanabe a Japanese artist is known for painting pictures of his daughters using masterworks as their play grounds. “I try to envision vast imaginary landscapes fenced in by proper nouns of such painters as Rousseau and Delvaux as semi-realistic public spaces,” he said. “My daughters travel to these places, where they pick flowers, take a short nap and play. In the world of imagination, everything is accessible and nothing is forbidden. I observe other painters’ images from a landscape painter’s point of view and play with those images.”
He uses the Japanese literary idea of honkadori, an allusion within a poem to an older poem, as partial inspiration for his work. Below is his Daughter playing in Rusoe's forest. |
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Student Examples
Modern Madonna and Child 1922 JC Leyendecker
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Melanie Khambounmy MGSH Class of 2014
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