Appropriation

Amelia De Smet

Granja junto al lago oil on canvas board 20 x 25cm

Translating to ‘Lakeside farm’ in Spanish, this is artwork is an appropriation of two artworks from the NGV - James Dickson Innes’ Collioure (1911) and Tristram Hillier’s Andalusian farm (1949) - for the subject Painting Techniques. Appropriation is an approach where artists deliberately copy images and present them in a new context.