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Yasumasa Morimura

 

Yasumasa Morimura

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Yasumasa Morimura (June 11, 1951 - ) is a Japanese appropriation artist. He was born in Osaka and graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1978. Since 1985, Yasumasa Morimura has primarily shown his work in international solo exhibitions, although he has been involved in various group exhibitions.

Yasumasa Morimura borrows images from historical artists (ranging from Edouard Manet to Rembrandt to Cindy Sherman), and inserts his own face and body into them. His work engages with issues of gender, and challenges both Western and Japanese notions of good taste.

Among others, Morimura's exhibitions have been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1992), the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jouy-en-Josas, France (1993), the Hara Art Museum in Hara, Japan (1994), the Guggenheim Museum (1994), the Yokohama Museum of Art in Yokohama, Japan (1996),Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2006), and the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, Australia (2007).

In his most recent and most extravagant reproduction, Morimura created a series of hybrid self-portraits modeled after the art of Frida Kahlo.

 

An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Skull Ring)

Mother (Judith II)

Self portrait (Poppy)

Self portrait with yellow costume

Self portrait (Rembrandt and Saskia)

Portrait Flora

Portrait (Queen and Dog)

Pears with Noses

The Death of the father

Angels Descending the Staircase

Cezanne

Criticism and the Lover A

To My Little Sister: for Cindy Sherman

Cranach

Playing with Gods III: At Night

Mona Lisa in its Origin

Mona Lisa in Pregnancy

Mona Lisa in the Third Place

Gerhard Richter

Me descending the Stairs for Gerhard Richter

Goya

Goya

Daughter of Art History (Maja C)

Ingres

Portrait (La Source I, II, III)

Manet

Manet

Portraits Shounen I, II, III

Manet

 

Manet

Rembrandt

Rossett

Six Brides

Doublonnage (Marcel)

Portrait (Van Gogh)

Singing Sunflowers

Velasquez

Daughter of Art History

Velasquez

Daughter of Art History, Princess A

Me Holding a Gun: for Andy Warhol

Self-Portrait After Brigitte Bardot 3

Self-Portrait After Brigitte Bardot 2

Self-Portrait After Elizabeth Taylor 2

Self-Portrait After Faye Dunaway 2

Self-portrait
After Red Marilyn

Self-Portrait After Marilyn Monroe

Self-Portrait  Dietrich (Mannish)

Self-Portrait After Rita Heywarth 1

Blinded by the Light




An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo




An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo