Remixing Architecture: Copyright & Fair Use: Pastiche
This guide will help clarify inspiration & plagiarism in the visual arts including architecture, art, & design.
Pastiche
Pastiche
The Grove Dictionary of Art defines Pastiche as an "image that self-consciously borrows its style, technique, or motifs from other works of art yet is not a direct copy. The result can be sometimes incoherent and at times is deliberately exaggerated and satirical, as in caricature" (Grove Dictionary of Art). Some critics argue that pastiche creates debate regarding social and cultural context. Others argue pastiche lacks innovation and is just a recycling of old ideas. The key to pastiche is one must add something to the original; simply changing the materials used to create the object is not enough.
Examples of Pastiche:
Left: Parthenon by ASaber91CC BY 4.0 - Built 125 AD, Rome, Italy
Right: Villa Almerico Capra (La Rotonda), Vicenza, Italia by Quinok CC BY 4.0 - Palladio 1556-1590
Left: Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1485-1486. Tempera on Canvas, 172.5 x 278.5 cm, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy,
Right: Leopold Forstner, Spring, 1907. Mosaic, Grand Hotel Wiesler, Graz, Austria. (Jugendstilmosaik Hotel Wiesler, Graz 1 Glasmosaik „Der Frühling“ von Leopold Forstner by Thomas Ledi CC BY 4.0)
