#Art Blog article n.34: Exploring the Evolution of Tech and Art: From Appropriation Art to AR to AI

Eva Leopoldi - Project Work: The Early Years

Just like any profession or craft, art must be studied and learned over the years. It wasn't until the end of the last century that I presented a large project to the public. In fact, it took me years to perfect my technique of painting to the point where I was satisfied with the result. During this phase of craftsmanship learning, I delved into art movements and philosophies.

Postmodern appropriation art fascinated me at the time, and I have remained a passionate appropriation artist to this day.

With the project #AppropriationArt and the painting on silk, I have combined two extraordinary working methods. I have worked on works that already existed in art history. While I worked with certain existing images, my new works differed from the original images in terms of conception, intention, medium, context, strategy, and of course history. Because I have always told my own stories with my pictures. I have translated the original image into my language, using my colors, shapes, contours, and titles. This concept of "translation" was also used by Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida.

My goal was and still is more than ever today to point out the phenomenon of multiple image statements that arise through the uniqueness of the respective recipients who are willing to engage with the image. There is not the 'one absolute truth' - just as little as 'the object' or 'the world'.

How an object appears to us and how we see it always depends on the conditions under which we observe it.

The senses do not serve to perceive a given world, but to produce it for us. Before we have what we usually call a fact, data must be filtered, distinguished, classified, and organized. Thus, every supposed fact is already an interpretation.

In order to make this thought public, I also designed the titles of my works in a multiple way back then, offering three possibilities: The original title (if known), my new title, and the third title, which each individual can work out for themselves, represented by "This or That" of "One or Another".

For example, I have painted a work entitled:

"Camille - To Paint or To Clean?" by "Eva Leopoldi after "The Reclining Woman" by "Otto Müller" in front of "This or That".

This painting is also part of my ongoing project #AnArtistSeesLiterature.
I immediately associated the reclining woman on the sofa with Camille from the book "Together is Less Alone".

Here is the original by Otto Müller.