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Material arts and culture: consumerism and social engagement ~…
Material arts and culture: consumerism and social engagement ~ Contemporary art
Key object 1: 727
Artist
Strategy is becoming a great artist while becoming famous. In later years, he really desires more to become s great artist and less interested in consumerism. Representing himself as an art historian, teaching the US about Japanese art.
Now has his own company -> needs to keep producing, which leads to sometimes others create in his name.
West dominates the art world, Murakami fought this by becoming extreme stereotypically Japanese. Thought by becoming famous in America would mean becoming famous in Japan.
Murakami
Takahashi
Nihonga influences
Divied like a traditional folding screen
Layers of acrylic paint rubbed down to makle it reminioscent of golden screens
Reference to the great wave, Hokusai
No sense of depth / time and space are collapsed -> superflat
Key object 4: Yellow Pumpkin
Artist
Mental health problems results in her somtimes seeing the world in dots probably resulting in her type of art for therapeutic purposes.
Famous for her dot sculpture and her sculptures exist harmoniously in a public space.
Yayoi Kusama
Already famous in the 50s/60s
The art is used to draw more tourists to remote part of Japan due to depopulation, as the artist gained much popularity for her public stunts.
Critic: the art is not distant enough from business
Key object 3: Nirvana
Artist
Goal to break the boundary between art and the person experiencing it.
International collective with many types of art
TeamLAB
This art is maybe not meant to be critical but in harmony with the environment it is in as an experience.
Based on Jakuchu Ito's Buddhist paintings of real animals/plants but the projections in Nirvana looks like mystified versions of animals.
Background info
Everything post WWII is considered contemporary
American culture strongly represented
Two types of art to highlight
artists who self orientalised to interest the West
Social function of art to create harmonious relations, mainly in order to make people aware of (ecological) problems
1980's
Japanese art flourished
Consumerism -> not always depicted as bad as it can be seen as the driving force behind art (~Murakami)
Nostalgia of the past
1990's
Post-growth society, as one of the 1st countries
Campaigns to encourage people to live in the countryside with art being a tool to achieve this
Immersive art
Key object 2: Dragon on clouds
Artist
Murakami
Takahashi
Asked to paint something himself, as critics said all his art was produced by his company, students etc.
13 metres long, 2 metres high acrylic painting
Dragon painted by Soga Shotaku as inspiration
Said it took 24 hours