Cultural Connection Parody

• Your project challenge:

Brainstorm a list of themes for your painting
based on a societal, personal or cultural issue.
From a master work, create a parody that would
exemplify the issue.
Use a minimum of 8 tempera techniques.
 Appropriation
Appropriation in art is the use of pre-
existing objects or images with little or
no transformation applied to them.

The use of appropriation has played a

significant role in the history of the arts
(literary, visual, musical and performing
arts).

In the visual arts, to appropriate means

to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or
sample aspects (or the entire form) of
human-made visual culture. Notable in
this respect are the Ready mades of
Marcel Duchamp.
Kehinde Wiley - Contemporary
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne, 1806, Oil on canvas; 102 x 63
3/4 in. (259 x 162 cm), Musée de l'Armée, Paris (5420).

Kehinde Wiley, Ice T, 2005, Oil on canvas, 243.8 x 182.9 cm (96 x 72 in), Private collection,
courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery, © Kehinde Wiley. - See more at:
http://www2.corcoran.org/30americans/artists/kehinde-wiley#sthash.hTq8Uhuf.dpuf
More Examples
Michelangelo Buonarotti - Renaissance
Leonardo DaVinci - Renaissance
Eduard Munch – German
Expressionism
Salvador Dali - Surrealism
Rene Magritte - Surrealist
Grant Wood – American Folk
Norman Rockwell – American Folk
 Where do we go from here?
• Complete the brainstorm / question and
intent sheet for ideas on social, political,
personal, or cultural issues.
• Search for a master work online or in a book.
Print a colored version and document your
image and plan in sketchbook.
• Plan what techniques would be best for your
painting intent.