挪用(appropriate)中的ap来源于拉丁文的ad,意为给予;propriate指个人拥有某物。两者结合在一起便意为“视某物为己有”。作为一种艺术创作方法,挪用就是指艺术家利用过去存在的图式、样式来进行艺术创作。当挪用成为后现代艺术的一种主要创作方法时,它不是被动的、客观的或偶然的,而是积极、主观、充满目的性的。 Appropriate ap comes from the Latin ad, meaning to give; propriate refers to individuals have something. The combination of the two means “as something else.” As a method of artistic creation, misappropriation means that artists use past patterns and styles to create art. When appropriation becomes a major creative method of postmodern art, it is not passive, objective or accidental, but active, subjective, and purposeful.