Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono “the worlds most famous unknown artist” Ciaran Whelan Yoko Ono is one the most influential performance, multi media and avante guarde artist of the 20th century who`s work has been over shadowed by her personnel life. Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1933 Ono attended the prestigious Gakushuin Unversity, while here her family moved to America to escape the war.Art appealed to Yoko `shortly after turning twenty years old, Yoko Ono discovered art out of necessity. “Art is a means of survival,”`1

Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician and activist, known not for her own works and career, but for her relationships with prominent men. She is an extremely contentious figure in popular culture and is thought of as the woman who “broke up The Beatles”, due to her passionate relationship with John Lennon. Yoko Ono is victim to many different interpretations, most related to her personal attributes. Her relationship to John Lennon is seen by critics and even Beatles fans as a ploy to financially

Yoko Ono is a conceptual artist, performer, singer, film-maker and peace activist, and Japanese multimedia artist. She is known for avant-garde and expressive pieces. Her work spans countless mediums. The following are works that highlight Ono’s array of mediums both independently and collaborative. Ono’s groundbreaking contributions to the art scene of the 1960s has led her to be described as the most famous unknown artist by John Lennon. Recently, she has gained admiration for her retrospective

1960-1971 is Yoko Ono’s debut at the Museum of Modern Art (though some would call it her second). Her first experience with MoMA was in 1971 when she announced that she would be holding an exhibit at the museum, when viewers arrived they found out her works had been her releasing flies out of a bottle and invited anyone to try to find them across the city. ‘One Woman Show’ is an exhibit that revolves mainly around Yoko Ono, the former wife of The Beatles’ John Lennon. The exhibit’s focus on Yoko Ono is a

Yoko Ono is known for being the famous John Lennon’s wife and the scapegoat that is blamed for breaking up the pop/rock sensation group, The Beatles. Unfortunately, She is lesser known and given less media credit for being a fantastic alternative artist. Ono focuses on installation, performance, and conceptual art. Installation art is defined by the artist taking a whole space, room, or building like a museum and transforming it into their art exhibit. The patrons walk in to see an exhibit and are

performance art, photography, videography, installation and conceptual ideas. This era of art also pushed the boundaries between the traditional disciplines of art. Three artist that have had a huge impact on art in the time period are, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, and Marina Abramovic. Each of these artists embraced the new types of art in several ways. Andy Warhol is an American artist from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania whose work was essential to this era of art. Warhol had a career as a magazine ad illustrator

John Lennon had many struggles in his life, but still was able to write music and share the message of world peace with his loving wife Yoko Ono. John Lennon inspired many people and also took care of his son which made a major impact on his solo career. If you want to learn more about John Lennon read my paper down below. Lennon was born during World War II. Lennon didn’t see his father much after his mom and dad, Julia and Alfred Lennon, divorced. Lennon’s mom thought she was an unfit

empirical data. Another important inquiry, specifically as it relates to dead celebrity fandom is, as time passes, and first-generations fans die, does the celebrity stay relevant? And how does this maintenance of the image persist? For example, Yoko Ono maintains close control of the image of John Lennon and helps to maintain

Ono came from a musical background, her father ensuring her musical education was received through rigorous piano and singing training, and her relationship with John Lennon brought her to the attention of mainstream culture. In 1969 Lennon and Ono used their honeymoon as a protest against the Vietnam War with Bed- Ins for Peace, inviting the media to visit them in a hotel room for several days running where they talked about peace for twelve hours a day. However, by this time Ono had already

John lennon John lennon was a very interesting person. He had started a peace movement, He changed people's views and He always managed to make his family happy. John lennon was a very unique and different artist. He often wrote socially disturbing songs that had drawn attention from the public. His songs were often described as “introspective”, “spiritual”and advocated positivity amongst one another. The artist, John lennon started to get involved in drugs. He had thought that if he took acid