Yayoi Kusama is an artist who does many sorts of work, but all of them are similar in one way. They’re all full of repetitive patterns. Recently she was named by TIME magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people. Her art is extremely distinct, but that’s not all there is to her. She has a very strong view on world peace and promotes people to be gentle and caring to each other. All of these beliefs are extremely influenced by her childhood.
Being born in a rich household didn’t make her childhood any more comfortable. Yayoi Kusama was born on March 22, 1929. The timing was especially bad since WWII was about to begin and Japan was heavily involved. This all amounted to a lot of pressure on her, and caused her current ideals and beliefs
for peace and individuality. Kusama was born with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), it made her see certain hallucinations such as the ones she draws in her works of art. When she was a kid she was often beaten by her mother, who was in her words, “...a shrewd business woman always horrendously busy at her work. I believe she contributed a great deal to the success of the family business. But she was extremely violent.” from an interview was BOMB magazine. Kusama started painted around the age of 10, her mother was extremely against her painting and often destroyed canvases she painted. Later on, when she was a bit older, she was sent to a factory to work and contribute to the war effort of Japan. There, she made parachutes and gained her ability to sew, which later led to her fashion designing. During her experience of war and family abuse, these events heavily influenced how Kusama felt about she felt about the world. Later on when she was older, she would be promoting peace and love. As a child, since her hobbies were often suppressed, she believed in transcendental beliefs. Kusama believed that people can bring out the best of what they can do when they focus on themselves. She emphasizes the importance of how she could only do the work that she can do with the most meaning behind it, “I am an obsessional artist. People may call me otherwise, but I simply let them do as they please. I consider myself a heretic of the art world. I think only of myself when I make my artwork. Affected by the obsession that has been lodged in my body, I created pieces in quick succession for my new ‘-isms.’” She very strongly agrees with the concept of Individualism in Transcendentalism people are at their best when independent. Being able to think for oneself is a common theme among Transcendentalists and Yayoi Kusama. Being self-reliant is something I personally think is an important factor to allow personal creativity flow, just the same as Yayoi Kusama. Just as she channels her mental illness into her work, it’s important to have a personal piece of yourself in all of your works. Whether it’s writing, drawing, or scientifical work, it’s all extremely to mark yourself in the work you do. That is what makes something unique. Other ideals that I can agree with Kusama are her views on world peace. Just as I, she detests violence and thinks if we can all come together and realize the things we enjoy are the same, we could all join together in unity.
Ester Hernandez is a Chicana artist, best known for her works of Chicana women. Ester’s goal is to recreate women’s lives to produce positive images of women’s lifestyle and to create icons. Her piece, Frida y Yo, contains the iconic painter Frida Kahlo. Frida, after being in multiple accidents causing long-term pain and suffering, began painting, mostly self-portraits, to portray her reality and glorify the pain. Similar to how Hernandez's goals are a juxtaposition to Frida’s artwork, the art piece Frida y Yo creates a juxtaposition between life and suffering and death and fortune.
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Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photographer, photo journalist. He was born Endre Friedmann into a Jewish family October 22, 1913 in Budapest now known as Austria Hungary. He was best known for redefining wartime photojournalism by insisting working in trenches, in the midst of combat. Capa originally wanted to be a writer but he found work as a photographer in Berlin and grew to love the art of photography. He later moved to Germany when Adolf Hitler’s rule was just beginning. He did this you keep on pursuing his newfound love of war photography. It was hard for him to be a photographer of Nazism and the was on the Jewish being one himself. He was forced to hide the fact that he was jawing in order to be able to keep taking photos and not be killed or captured by the Germans who were not only after people who were Jewish but also photographers as well. Thus he adopted the name Robert capa not only because he wanted to hide the hide the fact that he was Jewish but because capa (“shark”) was his nick mane is school. He felt that it would be easier to recognize as an American-sounding, since it was similar to a film director by the name of Frank Capra. He found it easier to sell his photos under the new "American"-sounding name.
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