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1. Essay On Yayoi Kusama
Various sizes of dots, eyes and self–portraits cover the white walls of the Ota Fine Arts gallery
showcasing Yayoi Kusama's solo exhibition in Singapore. On display are 33 small size painting that
are created between 2011 and 2012 and executed around 2004. These paintings show a variety of
mediums all produced by the 87 year old dotted Japanese artist. Renowned for using repetitive
motifs of dotted organisms within her new range of work we could gain a new viewpoint of her
eccentric art. Yayoi Kusama: Prints is a vibrant and breathtaking exhibition it is highly
recommended for everyone, especially those who had an admiration for her works, Japanese culture,
and prints. Within this small gallery space, Kusama's legacy and passion could be seen and felt.
Yayoi Kusama's life long work is an exploration of her depersonalization syndrome. Using polka
dots as a representation of her own self–obliteration, universe and body cells her hallucinations and
obsessional images are reflected on various mediums of paintings and sculptures (Grady T. Turner,
Yayoi Kusama). Although her works are primarily known for the use of repetitive dots, pumpkins
and the Infinity Mirror Room, Kusama's belief in art is not only about self expression but also
reflects political and humanitarian issues too. Yayoi Kusama allows her audience to step into her ...
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Yayoi Kusama states in the exhibition catalog interview that her monochromatic works helps to
"express to viewers inviolable dignity and inviolable life of humankind as a mystery" (Yayoi
Kusama). In her new series of prints it contain various symbols like polka dots, free lines, eyes,
Kusama's portrait, shoes, books, hearts and a single handbag; all these clearly symbolize her
reflection and theme of the new series of
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5. How Audience Driven Performance Art Differ From Other...
How does audience driven performance art differ from other forms of performance art?
Introduction:
In recent years, a form of performance which relies as much on the audience as it does an artist has
be growing increasingly popular among those who appreciate the meta. There is a sort of curiosity
associated with participating in art and the creation of art which is refreshingly different from what
is often found in performance. In this paper, I will focus on the audience and their role in watching,
thinking about, interpreting, and changing performance art, I will not be interested in the intention of
any artists. It is especially important to focus on the interactions and feelings which are formed from
attending and participating in performance (even if that participation is simply viewing). Thus, the
works that I will be examining will have no spoken words because I feel that words serve to distract
from the interpretation of audience–in–performance that I will put forth. Therefore, the pieces I have
chosen are a kind of Invisible Theatre (a term that I have co–opted from Augusto Boal), this
Invisible Theatre serves as the foundation of the analysis I will offer and is crucial to the discussion
of the role and effect of audience (277). Invisible Theatre is "public theatre which involves the
public as participants in the action without their knowing it" (Boal xxiii). The three pieces which I
will examine, Gala by Jérôme Bel, 4'33" by John Cage, and The Passing Winter by
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9. Medical Ethics Final Essay : Medicine
Medical Ethics Final Essay
Salem Mojadidi
CSU Eastbay
Professor Smith
HSC 3720 November 21, 2014
The day I woke up and realized that my cousins were randomly sleeping on my bedroom floor knew
there was something wrong; I was right. In the summer of 2005 my aunt was diagnosed with breast
cancer and the doctor said that there was a 50/50 chance that she would live since it was in an
advanced stage of cancer. My aunt spent the next few years back and forth from the hospital, from
weekly checkups to chemotherapy it was starting to become her second home. Not to mention her
hair falling out and going from being a healthy size to almost anorexic within a year. During those
years my cousin would sleep over often and would express how much they hate being at home
because their mother would always be in pain and snapping at everyone blaming others for her
cancer. It was not until late 2006 that she was given the good news that her cancer was shrinking and
going away. From then on after that news my aunt became really grateful, she had a complete three
sixty from hating God and blaming everyone for her cancer to now becoming a righteous women.
She would go to the mosque every Friday, pray every day, and find ways that proactively explained
her cancer and the pain she faces every day. Middle of 2007 after battling cancer for almost two
years she was finally Cancer free and from
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13. Art Quiz 1 Essay
Arts Appreciation 1301
Chapter 1 Quiz
1. Chapter One opens by describing the work of artist Cai Guo–Qiang. Gunpowder is an unusual
material to draw with and the sky is an unusual surface to draw on! What reasons does the artist give
for using gunpowder as his drawing material?
Cai Guo–Qiang wished to create beauty from something like gunpowder, which is originally
considered a force of destruction.
2. On page 3, the author (Sayre p.3) states: "Appreciating art is never just a question of accepting
visual stimuli, but also involves intelligently contemplating why and how works of art come to be
made and have meaning." What questions does the author suggest that you ask when viewing and
considering a work of art?
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Chapter One selects works of art from a wide variety of cultures and times. What might you not
notice about Fig. 1–8, if you did not know that the Mugal ruler Akbar believed that "a synthesis of
the world's faiths would surpass the teachings of any of them."
If I didn't know that the Mugal ruler Akbar believed that "a synthesis of the world's faiths would
surpass the teaching of any of them" I wouldn't have noticed that in the painting Jahangir in Dabar
there is a variety of faces with different racial and ethnic features.
8. Artist Claude Monet In Fig.1–9, painted the changes that were occurring in Europe during the
Industrial Revolution. Many left their agrarian lives for jobs in the city. Monet captures an
ambiguity in his painting about the changing world. What might you paint to describe our changing
world?
I would attempt to capture how far and how fast our technology is changing and growing, and
maybe below I would try to combine it with the simplicity of people's lifestyles before all this
technology took over.
9. Would you like a coffin designed by Kane Kwei? If yes, what form might it take?
Yes, I might consider it. And if I do, I would like a coffin in shape of a tree with paintings of flowers
and birds all around it. 10. After viewing the works of architect Renzo Piano, what are his intentions
with the design of the Cultural Center in New Caledonia?
Renzo Piano's intentions are to blend
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17. Art Reflection
This semester my art practice has primarily focused on utilising carefully constructed language as
opposed to previous stream–of–consciousness techniques, while further investigating participatory
projects, and assemblage as a new form of installation. The importance of memory and the
handwritten repeatedly warranted further consideration during the course of the semester and
became a fundamental element in each work. Conceptually, my practice has evolved into a critique
of diaristic language by exhibiting private confessions in public spaces and inviting strangers to
participate in the perverse act of reading my most personal thoughts. This notion is challenged by
the introduction of secondary texts and blurs the line between what is real and what is fiction within
the work. These evolving elements within my practice are best observed through works warm under
orange (standstill), the pitiful militia, my mother and raymond carver, and the library respectively.
Photographic series warm under orange (standstill) is the third transformation of terrible
confessional and pathetic conversation: warm under orange, the second instalment of personal texts
that examine emotions such as joy, anger, exposure and love. The four photographs depict orange
fabric with embroidered text scrunched and folded from a variety of angles. The abstracted view of
the material conceals the text embroidered, however, words such as 'listen' and 'lovely' are legible in
a few of the prints. By
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21. Yayoi Kusama's Rtistic Identity
I first became attracted to Yayoi Kusama's work when I came upon a 1966 photograph of Kusama
modeling on her own installation with painted dots covering her body. The photograph
communicated what seemed to be a special message that fascinated me; I was curious about what
symbolism the polka dots express and what connotations Kusama was intending to reveal by
painting repetitive tessellations. I was instantly drawn to the manner in which Kusama dresses in the
fashion of her own endless imagination; it seemed that Kusama's body and art have merged into one
creative entity, softening the variance between the artist and the art piece. In short, the photograph
inspired me in discovering Kusuma's history, analyzing her art pieces, and contemplating my ...
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By analyzing the history of Kusama, a fundamental explanation or motive for the themes of
Kusama's art can be gleaned. Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan during a
tumultuous time of economic crises. The Japanese population was extremely oppressed by the
Japanese military as the Great Depression reached Japan. Kusama began to express enthusiasm in
making art as she began exhibiting her work in her teens; however, her family was not supportive of
her interest and tried to influence her towards a conventional path of becoming a traditional
Japanese housewife. Kusama's relationship with her family, and especially the relationship with her
mother, was a contributing factor to her anger against any kind of political and social oppression.
Kusama's mother was a disciplinarian figure in the family and tried to force her daughter to follow
traditional gender roles, which disregarded Kusama's aspiration of professionally pursuing art.
However, Kusama's creative ambitions were not curtailed by her family's conflicting interests or the
demanding work called upon her following the outbreak of World War Two.
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25. Yayoi Kusama Research Paper
Elsa Vallejo
Professor Ming.
Arth1.
04/18/17 Vallejo 1.
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist and a writer, she's known for her Paintings, drawings, sculptures,
installation arts, performance arts, films, fictions, fashions, and writing. Where her work has a touch
of pop art, minimalist and feminist art movements. She got her big break in 1965 when she did the
Infinity Mirror Room–Phalli's Field. Using mirrors, her work is portrayed by dot motifs as well the
infinity nets. She revolutionized the deepness repetition of her earlier paintings and work into an
emotional experience. These kinds of work she did goes way back from her childhood hallucinations
because of the abuse she went through as a young child. Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929 in Japan in
a traditional family. She was determined to become an artist and was inspired through an inspiration
by Georgia O'Keeffe and this motivated her to move to New York in the U.S. in 1957, carrying her
portfolio with her drawings and with a little bit of money she had then. Her first solo exhibition was
in 1959 in the city of New York. Her work continues to be an influenced to many artist now in days.
The reason I developed an interest on Yayoi Kusama works, is because she suffered from mental
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She says, "her hand moves the brush while thoughts come afterward." She draws her visions from
nature, specially the blossoms of the spring cherry. Kusama is obviously impressed when she sees
the movement of the flowers. She tells us in her writings about her experience. She says, "I want to
eat cherry blossoms/I want to kiss their pink colors/Their scent that would have reached the universe
dissipated in my youth." When she starts working on any of her work she goes into her own zone,
where she forgets about the world and that's a how she can achieve her master
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29. Van Gogh 's Starry Night
Some of the most renowned artists use their work to express key aspects of their 'lives'; many use
personal affairs as motivation to create some of their most new and most greatest works. It can be
assumed that artist's with mental illnesses 'have no choice but to express their lives'; using art as
their escape. Which makes me question what was their state of mind and motivation in the creation
of some of their famous works, for example Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'. The expressive work of Van
Gogh and the abstract mark making of De Kooning leads me to ask the question "can artists escape
their mental illnesses by expressing themselves through their application of paint, colour, shape and
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One can't do without it; one must make use of it. What looks beautiful, really beautiful – is also
right." Van Gogh had many renowned illnesses two of which being bipolar and extreme case of
depression. 21st century critics assume that it was these illnesses that tainted his view of the world
around him. Which is perhaps evident in one of his latest and greatest's works "starry night"; His
dramatic brush strokes of swirling clouds and illuminated stars creates a fast moving pace which
your eyes continually follow across the sky (this is a prime example of an artist having no choice but
to express their lives – Van Gogh paints the distorted view he saw around him in Paris). This style of
painting contrasts to other famous artists and art movements of this century such as Gaugin's
landscape of the 'isolated house'; his piece is calm, warm and realistic a typical country landscape.
Although both landscape pieces express a different tone and mood through colour, the texture of
their pieces contrast as "starry night" creates a fast moving pace where Gaugin's piece is very still,
there is no movement. This perhaps is Gaugin's experience of this place he admires everything
around him and wishes it to remain still. Furthermore, the large dark isolated tree in the front of Van
Gogh's piece could be perceived to be Van Gogh's isolation from everyone around him side effects
of his mental illness (which again isolated him from friends and family
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33. Analysis Of Yayoi Kusama At The Phoenix Art Museum
The art piece "You Who are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies," by Yayoi
Kusama at the Phoenix Art museum, is a pitch–black room with mirrors lining the walls and black
granite flooring and ceiling. Hanging from the ceiling to the floor are black cords three inches or so
apart with multiple LED lights attached to each cord, which change to a new color scheme every
two or so minutes and flicker on and off. When I first walked into the room the lights were all red,
and by the time I exited they had shifted from red, to green and red, to blue and purple, to blue and
green, to blue, and repeated again. The room is small, and is only about a 15 feet by 15 feet square
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I also got the feeling that the artist created this room to let people live a fantasy and escape from the
real world that was just on the other side of the mirrored walls.
Now eight years later, my first reaction to the piece was completely different. I felt the room
represented infinity and space. The piece is titled, "You Who are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing
Swarm of Fireflies," and while standing in the room I felt obliterated. I felt so insignificant standing
in a room surrounded by a swarm of lights that seemed to go on for eternity, and I got the feeling
that the piece represented how big the world is and how little we are in it. This was scary at first
because most people are afraid of feeling insignificant and coming to terms with how small of a
piece humans are in the universe was difficult, but in that moment I was forced to think about
obliteration and infinity. However, the changing color scheme of the lights made me feel calm and at
will my thoughts. I got the similar feeling that I did when I was 11, and I felt the piece was made for
people to enjoy in that moment. I thought the artist was trying to represent that everything in life is
here and now, and that is what is important. As a species we always try to look beyond things and
look farther into the future, but as the lights show the things in the distance are hard to see and only
what is close by can truly be experienced
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