Yasumasa Morimura

I had the pleasure of visiting San Jose Museum Of Art and was very Impresses .  yasumasa Morimura is a japanese artist known for his large scale self -portraits that were often superimposed on art historical image or picture of iconic individuals.Yasumasa painted self -portraits with an inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (collar of Thorns),in 2001. and its inspirational companion piece, which was originally painted by Kahlo, entitled Self-Portrait .His  faces the viewer with her head and shoulders

Yasumasa Morimura Yasumasa Morimura is an internationally respected and controversial Japanese artist who through his art, represents social changes in Japanese culture, such as Western influences, politics and gender values. Morimura explores how Japan interacts with the World through the lens of the artist and how the artist creates an identity within his culture and the global community. Morimura was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1951. He was educated at Kyoto City University of the Arts where

Yasumasa Morimura (born in 1951, Japan) has had a career in film-making and conceptual photography for over three decades. Morimura uses costumes, makeup props and digital manipulation to create an almost replica of the original artwork, replacing the original subject with himself. Morimura graduated from the Kyōto City University of Arts in 1978 and then became an assistant at that same university. During his time working he experimented with many mediums and styles including painting, photography

The artwork Blinded by the Light (1991) by Yasumasa Morimura is an appropriation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Blind Leading the Blind (1568) (Israel, 2005). Morimura has appropriated paintings and photographs throughout the ages, though The Blind Leading the Blind is the earliest dated work that Morimura has appropriated (Marsh, Watts, & Maylon, 1999). Morimura super-imposes a composite self-portrait on top of Bruegel’s painting, successfully changing the meaning of the piece. The different

where they remix classical art by placing a figure in, that challenges traditional portraiture. In the case of Morimura, he places his male body into feminine portraiture, which addresses the idea of sexuality within art. As well, Morimura confronts the idea of white-washing Asain art into European classics, flipping the entire notion of appropriation on it’s head. Wiley, not unlike Morimura, also challenges the western canon by placing African-American urban youth in classic portraiture. The two artists

the imaging and representation of these communities in the media. Cindy Sherman and Yasumasa Morimura are two photographers who are seeking to resist and critique these ideologies. Through performative portraiture, the two artists engage in identity politics, intervening in these dominant representations to recreate and challenge the dominant narrative. Sherman focuses on women’s representation in film, while Morimura explores the relationship of

group. Marcel Duchamp and Yasumasa Morimura are examples of artists who appropriated other people, things and paintings in their work, to change their meanings, and either rebel against the norms of society, make a statement about issues affecting them and their culture, or to add humour to a once serious piece. Marcel Duchamp, born in France in 1887, to an artistic family, was an expressive artist who was able to think outside the square, and through his

Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, or professionally known as Hiro, is an American commercial photographer. He is known for his fashion and still photography, and many of his photographs are all about pristine elegance and surrealist surprise. Not only does his photos emit this eerie atmosphere, but also portray the sharp details of the subject in the photographs which makes them attractive in the viewers eyes. Hiro uses bright colors and lighting to make the photography look attractive and even glossy in a way

Task Structured Essay Examine selected artworks by: Yasumasa Morimura, Julie Rrap and Anne Zahalka. How do the works of Yasumasa Morimura, Julie Rrap and Anne Zahalka challenge conventional ways in which gender has been depicted historically in the visual arts? In your response select at least two different artists and discuss the following: * Through the postmodern frame of reference, explain how artists have appropriated historical artworks. How has the artist incorporated parody

conventional depictions of gender in the visual arts. Artists Yasumasa Morimura, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka and Cindy Sherman have each employed the use of appropriation to question the historical ideologies of gender, particularly in relation to women, and their role in art and society. They all borrowed past paintings and promoted them with new context to portray and explore different meanings towards gender, being mediated. Yasumasa Morimura appropriated historical works through the applications of