Visual Research

• What is a 'found image'? - Photo of a photo, photo of road sign, photo of a tyre track
• Complex issue
• Influences - has everything been done already?
• Appropriate the change - image becomes something else
• Andy Warhol - Coca Cola - What did I see in this image?
• Mass-produced, uniformity, everywhere, shelving
• Common answers but in the Coca Cola image the bottles are different!
• Andy Warhol - Elvis - appropriate, Elvis has become a product
• Jeff Koons - Rabbit - pop life, reflections so that looking at art is part of artwork
• Also attitude and where the art is form part of the artwork
• Collage - Image A + Image B = Image C (not Image AB)
• Tom Wesselmann - Still Life No.30 (1963)
• A lot of art provokes issues without giving answers