I think this
might be my last post.
I have been busy for past days but no worries.
For my fifth
post, I have decided to
focus on some famous artists that are recognized by lots of people. Their
explicit styles of art have induced fascinations on the global arena.
The first
artist I’m going to
introduce is Yayoi Kusama. Some of you might have seen her works since they are
well-known. She is both an artist and a writer. In addition to that she is
currently one among the various influential artists in Japan who are still
alive. Her works are based on conceptual art; she has worked with various isms
of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art and abstract
expressionism.
The piece of
work that got me fascinated is called the “Dots Obsession”; it is an installation project of
Dots everywhere in a room. When she was releasing this piece, she wrote, "Forget yourself. Become one with eternity.
Become part of your environment. Make love."
Another
installation called “Obliteration
Room” (photos above) was exhibited on 2011. Kusama developed
a popular interactive children’s
project.
This is an
interesting installation because at first, the whole room was painted in white
depicting an Australian domestic environment. The white room may be a function
of a blank canvas ready to be invigorated (or ‘obliterated’ in Kusama’s vocabulary). Children would visit
this place and put colourful dot stickers around the room and eventually ending
up with a room full of colour dots ‘obliterated.’
There are also hundreds of famous works done
by Kumasa. Surprisingly, she is 84 years-old and her passion in art will never
subside.
Look now,
See forever –
Yayoi Kusama
Damien Hirst
is also a very famous and loving artist globally. Just like Kumasa, he is a dot
lover. He is a conceptual, installation and painting artist. Most of his
recognized pieces of art are about death where he exhibits a dead shark, sheep
and cow. But what I’m going to
focus on today is about his paintings.
“To create that structure, to do those colours, and do
nothing. I suddenly got what I wanted. It was just a way of pinning down the
joy of colour,” (Damien Hirst).
Through 1986 to present days, he hires painting
assistants to paint the perfect dots. It is amazing how those paintings cost
approximately 0.5 million to 3.5 million dollars.
There are 1,500 paintings of dots that he and his team
of assistants have produced and they are currently working on a million dots,
which will take about nine years to complete.
I remember, playing a game on my phone called ‘Dots,’ which looks
very similar to Hirst’s paintings.
That was before when I knew his game which is available in the appstore. It is
really fun.
Kusama and Hirst are both famous artists, whose styles
I can define clearly. Their refinements of dots have caught my attention,
especially Kusama’s
installments which have added some sort of elegance and beauty into her works.
The simple rows of coloured dots also came to me as an inspiration. It is
amazing how Hirst can work on his other works as well as dot paintings which
are quite different from each other. Both artists have used dots to create
their works; nevertheless, the results came out totally different despite using
the same style. I absolutely love works by both artists. However I have to
admit that Yayoi’s works have
a more defined approach towards the world of dots. Moreover, Yayoi’s works were
lot influenced by dots, turning out into her own world.
For doing this blog, I learned so much about the
contemporary artists and read lots of articles. Finding artists with common
traits was not the easiest thing, especially on this blog. Both artists are
known globally and so there were so much to read. It was really fun researching
and looking at their works. I appreciate what I have done and if I have time, I
will consider doing this later when things are more settled following my
preparation into post-secondary.
Thanks for everyone that has visited my blog! Love you
all from my heart <3
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