Ausgangspunkt von Yves Favoriten,die er ausgesucht hat, ist die Arbeit von Mike Bidlo.Er ist ein Vertreter der Appropriation Art. Bidlo führte eine Performance nach einer biografischen Anekdote durch, bei der er als Jackson Pollock verkleidet in einen offenen Kamin urinierte. Für seine Ausstellungen ließ er Kunstwerke von Andy Warhol oder Constantin Brâncuși in Serie fertigen. Gegenwärtig produziert er Tausende von Zeichnungen und Modellen des Ready-made "Fountain" von Marcel Duchamp. Duchamps Ready-made gilt als eines der wichtigsten Kunstwerke der Moderne. Man kann Bidlos Projekt daher sowohl als Hommage an Duchamp wie als symbolische Abarbeitung am Generationenkonflikt verstehen.

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Appropriation Art defines an art form that deals with the copying of already existing works of art. The lines of development of Appropriation Art reach back to the early 20th century and find their roots, for example, in the readymades of Marcel Duchamp, in Pablo Picasso, in Giorgio de Chirico and finally also in Pop Art.

Representatives of Appropriation Art include artists Sherrie Levine (born 1947), Mike Bidlo (born 1953) and Philip Taaffe (born 1955). They assigned themselves this term in the early 1980s. In a broader sense, however, the term Appropriation Art was used for all quotations within postmodern art, which is why the designation became increasingly blurred. In order to classify a work as Appropriation Art, several criteria should be fulfilled: firstly, the temporary framework should be limited to the 1980s. Secondly, the intentional, thirdly, the conceptually elaborated use of a copy or quotation must be recognisable.
When artists work according to the principles of Appropriation Art, they pursue their copyist activity along different strategies. Mike Bidlo, for example, made detailed repetitions, but he did not use the original work as a model, but always copies. In Sherrie Levine's oeuvre, on the other hand, there are photographs that in turn reproduce photographs or reproductions of works by other artists without alteration. Furthermore, on a theoretical level, Appropriation Art always touches on the discourse of the reciprocal relationships between original and replica.

Other artists who can be counted as belonging to the circle of Appropriation Art because of the techniques or concepts they use are Allan McCollum, Stephen McKenna, Carlo Maria Mariani, Elaine Sturtevant and Rosemarie Trockel.

Yves Bleu was confronted very early on with works by Yves Klein, Mike Bidlo and the works of Elaine Sturtevant and positioned himself stylistically.