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sketches of my friends cat (practicing gestural drawing from life)

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Base skeleton for "Skeleton/Skin" Project

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Base skeleton for "Skeleton/Skin" Project

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(Comtemp artist research: Max Hooper Schneider)

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(Comtemp artist research: Max Hooper Schneider)

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I've been fascninated with a Russian artist named Ivan Bilibin recently, I've been inspired by his linework 

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I've been fascninated with a Russian artist named Ivan Bilibin recently, I've been inspired by his linework 

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(Contemp artist research: Fernando Botero)

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(Contemp artist research: Fernando Botero)

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Playing with the lighting filters in my drawing program

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Playing with the lighting filters in my drawing program

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(Contemp. Artist Research: Lynda Benglis) 

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(Contemp. Artist Research: Lynda Benglis) 

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(Contemp. Artist Research: Genesis Belanger)

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(Contemp. Artist Research: Genesis Belanger)

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Completed skeleton/skin

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Artist trading card for penpal

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(Contemp. artist research Paul McCarthy) 

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(Contemp. artist research Paul McCarthy) 

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Initial plans for readymade assignment (scrapped idea but I still like the sketches) 

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Initial plans for readymade assignment (scrapped idea but I still like the sketches) 

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(Comtemp. artist research: Felix Gonzalez-Torres) 

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(Comtemp. artist research: Felix Gonzalez-Torres) 

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playing around with character design ideas 

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playing around with character design ideas 

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APPROPRIATION: Taking something that belongs to/was created by someone else (usually intellectual property), and using it for your own purposes without permission

What are three examples of things Richard Prince has appropriated?

The Marlboro advertisement photos, various Instagram posts, the photo taken and renamed "Spiritual America"

How does Richard Prince defend his appropriation of images from the Internet?

Prince claims that a large amount of the internet is appropriated content. He equates his work to the rampant re-posting that goes on online (which, by the way, also sucks)

What is “transformative” about Prince’s appropriation for “New Portraits”?  According to the article, how are these pictures re-contextualized?

The pictures are re-contextualized literally by moving them from one place to another. Initially, they existed on a website where the creator had control over the context for which it existed. Prince took the pieces and moved them to a formal galley setting, therefore inherently changing the way they would be viewed by the audience. He also put his own comments at the bottoms of the pictures as if we were commenting on them in their natural habitat. He directly presents his own commentary in this way.

Yeah, but is it art?

Art is something you've created. Not to say this means you must create something from scratch for it to be considered art. People gain inspiration from all kinds of sources and are under no obligation to identify, let alone acknowledge them when presenting a work of art. There is a a line here however; I believe that Prince is simply taking someone else's artwork and displaying it. He may have added his own commentary to it, which constitutes art, but, in my opinion, it's a very weak showing. Art is not as good as the amount of effort put into it, but there is a difference between making something quick and simple, and doing something because it's easy. Prince has done the later. I think you could make a more effective commentary about internet culture by writing a blog post about it. This is the easy way out, and invalidates other artists in the process by taking their work out of context without permission. It's art yes, but it's also disrespectful and tone-deaf.

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Spatial depth sketch for Art 109 (My hallway) 

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Spatial depth sketch for Art 109 (My hallway) 

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Was randomly inspired by step by step diagrams like this. Reminds me of boy scout manuals. I want to imitate this style with an illustration. Love the scratchy black photocopy looking lines

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Negative space drawing of my palm plant 

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Negative space drawing of my palm plant 

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I had a dream about foggy forests and want to paint them. Spent all day looking at pictures 

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I had a dream about foggy forests and want to paint them. Spent all day looking at pictures 

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(Comtemp. artist research: Damien Hirst)

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(Comtemp. artist research: Damien Hirst)

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(Contemp. artist research Andy Goldsworthy)

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(Contemp. artist research Andy Goldsworthy)

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I've been inspired by the style of art on old tarot cards. I like the printed texture a lot and if makes me wonder how they were made

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Contemp. Artist research: Takashi Murakami

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Contemp. Artist research: Takashi Murakami

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Comtemp. artist research: Thomas Schutte 

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Comtemp. artist research: Thomas Schutte 