Yasumasa Morimura
A man with a motto after my own heart but first a little bio.Yasumasa Morimura a Japanese appropriation artist was born June 11, 1951 in Osaka, Japan he graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1978, Philadelphia College of Art in Philadelphia in 1982, and Columbia Unversity, New York in 1985. He began with a self-portrait as Van Gogh. He is a skilled master of costume, painting, cosmetics, and computer manipulation. He bursted onto the international art scene 10 years ago with his series "Art History" were he took replaced the famous faces of historic pieces of art with his own mug. He was nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize in 1996.
What makes his work so interesting is that he borrows images from historical artist (rembrandt to cindy sherman) and puts his own face and body into them. these self-portraits are mostly computer-processed. he creates with his work an an ambiguity between painting and photography, performance and photography, past and present, original and copy, male and female. Thus it surprises and destabilizes the viewer, and raises the question of defining the notions of fiction and reality, as well as defining the limits between them, in contemporary photography.
What made me choose him was his motto, "Art is basically entertainment, even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is FUN." And so he has some of his piece are really funny and you can get a real kick out of seeing them I did.
What makes his work so interesting is that he borrows images from historical artist (rembrandt to cindy sherman) and puts his own face and body into them. these self-portraits are mostly computer-processed. he creates with his work an an ambiguity between painting and photography, performance and photography, past and present, original and copy, male and female. Thus it surprises and destabilizes the viewer, and raises the question of defining the notions of fiction and reality, as well as defining the limits between them, in contemporary photography.
What made me choose him was his motto, "Art is basically entertainment, even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is FUN." And so he has some of his piece are really funny and you can get a real kick out of seeing them I did.
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