Need I apologize for the use of an image that was already "Appropriated"? Best example -Warhol's "Marilyn"
appropriated from a photo by Gene Korman for the film Niagara, made in 1953.
Here's Warhol's image quantified with another 1 of his appropriated images of a cow.
The photo was a still from the film "Niagara" by Gene Korman.
The "cows" were suggested by a friend and found in an agricultural magazine.
In fact, Warhol never created an original image and almost as often never actually created an image.
His genius was in recognizing potentially charged images of popular society.
Similarly, I like to use what I call "Images of Genius" in my digital collages. I'm often rather indiscreet about appropriating images that are sometimes so far from the past that they lack any meaning or context today- thus I feel that I am sometimes salvaging images that were otherwise doomed to obscurity.
Examples of Innovators of the Visual Language that I like to use images from are Muybridge- the man who froze time, Edgerton who discovered the secrets of creation and other diverse sources.
Warhol was known to say that anyone could do his art and he had an infatuation with dead celebrities- so here's a
"Recent Portrait"
Vishnus
Fire Headed Boy
In this image I appropriated, altered, and layered. It is
Bi-Lateral and named after the famous writer "Asimov"
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