Culminating Task Part 1. "Artists Support Other Artists"

After reading the Artists Support Other Artists, on the art blog and watched/read the linked items, I now have a more interesting and better understanding of art appropriation and appreciating art, and how artists support other artists.

There were many different ways in the videos shown, where  artists were supporting and appropriating different artists in their own way. I'm going to discuss the main points that I thought were fascinating and caught my attention the most about these art pieces, and artists.

I think that the artists express their appreciation, support an admiration, for these art pieces or other artists, in their projects by using different tools and techniques that the specific artist may use or used once, doing something that reflects a different culture or tradition, or by using a piece of their art work and combining it within their own, this is called Art Appropriation.

I believe that Art Appropriation is one of the great ways for artists to support other artists, by being able to take a piece of art that an artist connects to, and understands or even just likes and adding different visuals and creating it into their own style and their own emotions, and still having the connection they do to the original piece is really neat. For example, the artist here, Marcel Duchamp,  took the original Mona Lisa by Leonardo, and basically added a Go-Tee.
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"Appropriation breathed important new life into art"- Unknown

I noticed that after researching the photos of art appropriation, a lot of the comments and thoughts on it is that it isn't right, or that their copying for attention, plagiarism etc. I don't believe that this is the case at all. I believe that is an example of an artist bringing life, and a bit of themselves into another artists piece of work, not to copy to get more attention for themselves,  but to draw more attention to the original piece itself and that artist because they admire it and maybe feel some type of connection.
I believe that it is important for other artists to support each other and help each other out, by gaining knowledge and techniques from other artists to expand their knowledge and have a wider variety of what they could do with a canvas.

From discussing these topics, I realized that the aspect that I value the most would be the way artists put other cultures and traditions into their art. I like this type of artwork because its not only beautiful but its different to see, and a very interesting way to show an artists appreciation for another artists work or culture. To me, this doesn't mean it has to be a famous or well known artist who does this for another,  but anyone who decides to use other peoples life and cultures into their work.

For example, from doing some research I found this art class in elementary school, who obviously are not all Native but participate in creating art that isn't their culture and showing respect to other native painters, or native peoples in general. This meant a lot to me because now a days, there is a lot of racism going on and not enough people who express the beauty and uniqueness in every single culture, and to be able to put that beauty onto a piece of paper and share it with the world is an incredible thing. Here is the link below:

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/exploring-culture-through-art

There are many ways in which artists support other artist, but the most common ones that stood out to me were social media supporting and studio work&galleries.
I believe that these two are the main ways today that artists are supporting other artists. On social media websites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and even Snapchat, artists are supporting other artists by sharing their work, or giving them "shout outs" to let people know that this person has talent and you should check them out, because I think they're really well. Once one artists fans notice he/she enjoys another artists piece of art, that helps draw attention to that artists work and helps support them and their career. I see a lot of the time on Instagram, singers and song writers whom I follow are sharing teenagers music and Instagram pages to their fans, and telling them to check them out. I think this relates to this topic extremely because its the exact same thing, artists supporting other artists. Some of the artists on Instagram that I think are really neat:

@oleknyc
@mutustudio

A lot of the time today, a way for other artists to support another artist to share some of their work in the others gallery. This helps draw the attention of the people who are there checking out the artists gallery, and letting them decide if they like the other artists work and if they do the artist will be getting more support, and more fans all because of the main artists helping out another artist in getting their work out there and making a name for them self. On snap chat, I have a few contacts who are artists, are posting photos of their art works, or when they go into galleries and snap a photo of a painting to their story. This is also supporting the other artists because when i seen the photos I thought they were really neat and wanted to check out that artist and see more of his work.

Over all, after learning and reading about artists supporting other artists, i find it odd that I didn't actually realize that almost all the time artists are supporting other artists in a lot of the work that they do.  I think that this is a really kind and good thing for artists to do because they are not just trying to be the best and only get people to see their work, but instead they share others work and and trying to get them noticed rather then them self. This is an important factor to me because I don't really like the idea of fame changing people, or people wanting to be the best and the only one who can do something. This is also a good strategy for artists too, because by sharing others work with the world, might get them to return the favor later and help support you by doing the same.