Misappropriation Of The Classic

New media arts have great significance for open up the expressive possibility of contemporary arts as a form of art has been gaining more and more importance. Contemporary new media artists are very interested in "appropriate" the classic elements of traditional cultural to their creativity. Particular in Chinese contemporary arts, "appropriate" the classic elements has already became a kind of phenomenon which is worth paying attention. Under such background, this article would compare the phenomenon of "appropriate" the classic elements between in history and in new media art, between in Western and in China to analyzed certain questions.