Appropriation is defined in art as a practice where artists utilize pre-existing objects or images but manipulate them so that they are different from the original object and image from the original artist giving their own personal style on the work. Appropriation has been used since the 1980s by various artists but artists such as Picasso and Georges Braque. Whose constructions were made starting from 1912 using real objects to create various versions of themselves through self-portraiture and experimentations with what would be coined as Appropriation and as time went on other artists started to pick up the trend that Picasso and Georges Braque started while surrealism soon followed making the works that originally seemed normal into abstract and in some cases absurd art and objects.
Below are three examples of appropriation-
Salvador Dalí
Lobster Telephone 1936
Jeff Koons
Three Ball Total Equilibrium 1985
Pablo Picasso Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass, Guitar and Newspaper 1913
