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Yasumasa Morimura in his Osaka studio 1990; photograph by Sally Larsen. An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Skull Ring), photograph by Yasumasa Morimura Yasumasa Morimura (森村 泰昌, Morimura Yasumasa, born June 11, 1951) is a contemporary Japanese performance and appropriation artist whose work encompasses photography, film, and live performance.
English: Yasumasa Morimura for Issey Miyake, printed and perma-pleated polyester, 1997. From the Guest Artist series, first collaboration. The collage by Morimura commissioned by Miyake reproduces a nude woman from Ingres’s Neoclassical painting La Source (1856) juxtaposed with a self-portrait of the artist draped in red tulle.
With the artist MORIMURA Yasumasa as artistic director, Yokohama Triennale 2014 "ART Fahrenheit 451: Sailing into the sea of oblivion" was held at Yokohama Museum of Art and Shinko Pier Exhibition Hall from August to November 2014, featuring 65 participants/groups from 19 countries. [10]
Abstract painter, printmaker, and professor at Tama Art University: Yasumasa Morimura: Born 1951 Appropriation artist: Katsura Funakoshi: Born 1951 Sculptor and printmaker Yoshitaka Amano: Born 1952 Character designer, illustrator, printmaker, painter and sculptor Shigeru Miyamoto: Born 1952
Yasumasa Morimura is a Japanese appropriation artist who borrows images from historical artists (such as Édouard Manet or Rembrandt) to modern artists as Cindy Sherman, and inserts his own face and body into them. [49]
Morimura began contributing articles to magazines while working in hotels. He won the prestigious Edogawa Rampo Prize for his mystery fiction in 1969 and the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1973.
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Miwa Yanagi (やなぎみわ, Yanagi Miwa) is a Japanese photographic artist who examines self-image and stereotypes of women in contemporary Japanese society. Yanagi was discovered by conceptual photographer Yasumasa Morimura, who noticed some of her work while borrowing her house as a set for a separate project.