Andy Warhol's Appropriation Art Industry

As technology advances, the internet continues to get more congested with art and images- work from artists and photographers old and new. While the world wide web continuities to be an amazing tool in sharing work, meeting people and learning new things- it can also be somewhat destructive in terms of copyright and appropriation. In this day in age where the world is full of so many diverse styles of artists, the entire new age art industry is being challenged with the simple statement: “everything has been done”. Due to this unfortunately true fact that relevance in the art industry is loosely based on the creation of “new”, never-been-done-before work, “appropriation art” has become an interesting new form of work that many artists and art enthusiasts have different opinions on. One of the most well-known appropriation artists to reference to is Andy Warhol. While Warhol started the conversation about
I believe this line was totally crossed in the case of Prince vs. Cariou, where Richard Prince quite literally scanned the images taken by Patrick Cariou and only slightly altered them in Princes personal style. The ways in which Prince altered the photos included compositing in pieces of other photographs, adding extra content, sharpening and blurring. Many of the changes are so minimal that the final piece of work is only slightly altered from the original image. I feel like Prince’s work from “Canal Zone” is very equivalent to that of a plagiarized essay with a few words changed in each sentence. The images from “Rasta” were so seemingly pointlessly altered for “Canal Zone” that I disagree with this body of work. I don’t see a clear message or purpose of the direct copying and slight manipulation of the images for Prince’s