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Japan's Man of Many Faces.(Yasumasa Morimura )(Brief Article)(Interview)
Japanese portrait artist Yasumasa Morimura photographs his face onto masterworks by Van Gogh and Rembrandt. He has impersonated Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn. His interpretation of iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is on exhibit at Tokyo's Hara Museum of Contemporary Art. PERI met this man of many faces:
Why Frida Kahlo?
Her self-portraits embody all the aspects of life--love, agony, pain, sickness and joy--in a very fierce way. She was in desperate need to show her face in her work. She was afraid to be forgotten.
Are you, too?
People think [all self-portraitists] enjoy the exposure, but we don't. I hate it.
You don't look like you hate it.
I hate it, therefore I do it.
- Yasumasa Morimura at Luhring Augustine. (New York).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Princenthal, Nancy December 1, 2001 700+ words
In his most extravagant exercise of borrowed identity to date, Yasumasa Morimura created a series of hybrid self-portraits modeled on works by Frida Kahlo. Morimura has been inserting himself into simulations of other artists...
- Yasumasa Morimura: Yokohama Museum of Art.
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Matsui, Midori December 1, 2007 700+ words
...originally presented at the Kumamoto Museum of Art, showed Yasumasa Morimura's major works from 1985 through 2007 in a theatrical framework...Vermeer, van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, and Frida Kahlo. But the artist's descriptions reveal his unique interpretations...
- The Year of Frida Kahlo.(artist honored in film, art and on a stamp)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Cash, Stephanie Ebony, David September 1, 2001 700+ words
The life and times of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo have enthralled art lovers and scholars since the publication...an exhibition of Kahlo-inspired self-portraits by Yasumasa Morimura at Luhring Augustine Gallery in New York [Sept. 8...
- Yasumasa Morimura: Mother (Judith II).
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Bryson, Norman January 1, 1994 700+ words
...art and claimed a permanent place in their canon. Mother (Judith II), 1991, is the second in a series of images by Yasumasa Morimura based on the biblical story of Judith and Holofernes. In the first, Mother (Judith I), the figures are portrayed a...
- Glamour girls. (photography, Yasumasa Morimura, Yokohama Museum of Art,...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Gumpert, Lynn July 1, 1996 700+ words
...Garbed in what appears to be that very gown, complete with braid trim and gold tassels as belt, the Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura portrays Vivian Leigh in her most famous role in a photograph from his new "Actress' series. In his photo, Morimura...
- Frida Kahlo a escena en Holanda.
- Magazine article from: Proceso Ponce, Roberto February 26, 2006 700+ words
...de hartazgo por todo lo que suene a Frida Kahlo, la personalidad de esta notable pintora...ante el estreno mundial del montaje Frida Kahlo. Se trata de la novedosa puesta en...ciento por ciento mexicana y libre", Frida Kahlo se anuncia aqu como el espectculo estelar...
- Arranca homenaje a Frida Kahlo.(Primera Fila)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) May 7, 2004 700+ words
...casa que vio nacer, vivir y morir a Frida Kahlo, desde ayer se pueden ver otras 26...hubiera reunido sobre ella en el Museo Frida Kahlo Casa Azul. Al homenaje que se extender...del Fideicomiso Museos Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo y director del Museo Dolores Olmedo...
- Art lovers fret as kin cashes in on Frida Kahlo name.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) July 3, 2007 700+ words
...visit a museum to see this version of Frida Kahlo's classic "Self-Portrait With Monkeys...merchandise for years, her niece formed the Frida Kahlo Corp. in 2005 to cement Kahlo as an...dismay as the corporation approved a Frida Kahlo tequila, a $250 collectible doll and...
Source: HighBeam Research, Japan's Man of Many Faces.(Yasumasa Morimura )(Brief...