Appropriation in my own words is the use of ideas from another source. Taking element of another artists work and creating new work. Taking something that someone else has done and using it your own way. With the use of appropriation you cannot erase the original meaning. When artisits take a work of art and use it in their own work, it always holds a part of the original work. Appropriation comes in forms of artwork, speech, tattoo’s, advertising, music, photography and many more things.

Appropriation, in my opinion isn’t always confrontational or oppositional. Although with the avant-garde movement used appropriation to protest art. But I think now, although it is still used in protest. It is often used to honour other artists work. I use appropriation in my own work. I get some of my own ideas from other artists. In my own work, the original work is always present. But is never used against the artists, in protest.

The difference between appropriation and plagerism is that plagerism is the use of someone elses work, word for word. Plagerism hides the fact that it is taken from someone elses work. Appropriation honours the original work and the original artist is known and honoured through their work. Plagerism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work