Artists are increasingly using other artists’ art as the raw materials for their own work. While artists have always drawn inspiration from other work, “the difference now is that artists — professionals and amateurs alike — are taking existing works and messing with their content and expression to create something new. If you want a name for the phenomenon, you could look at its insistence on the rights of the individual and call it democratic art, or focus on its wholesale limb-splicing and call it FrankenArt, in a nod to Mary Shelley’s science-fiction horror story.”