CHASING MR P

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• CHASING MR P
• Chasing MR P is a term to use to cover aspect
  of Post modern art.
• By extending off each letter you can remember
  vital clues to identifying Post modern art works
  and thus gain a greater appreciation of the
  artists intention.

Question Who is Mr P?
Answer Mr Postmodern.
This unit of work is supported by the artworks of
Yasumasa Morimura.
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How am I ever going to remember what I am? The
art critics and historians call me Post modern. I
need to discover who I am for myself but how?
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Conceptual Challenging Confronting Collaborative C
urator Contemporary Hybrid Humour Appropriation Au
dience Satire Shocking Irony Installation New
technologies Gallery Multi layered Meaning
Recontextualise Parody
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I know Ill simply go chasing Mr P!
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"I dont do my painting on a canvas, I do my
painting on my face."
Art is basically entertainment. Even Michelangelo
and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that
way, I am an entertainer and want to make art
that is fun."
MORIMURA Yasumasa, Slaughter Cabinet II 1991
Photograph wood, lightbox, gelatin silver
photograph 58.0 x 43.0 x 43.0cm
Morimura Psychoborg 22 (1994 computer
manipulated color photo with artist as both
Jackson and Madonna)
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The role of the audience when experiencing post
modern art varies according to the art work
itself. Many works invites the audience to
participate in some way, This is called post
conceptual.
Yasumasa Morimura, "An Inner Dialogue with Frida
Kahlo (Hand Shaped Earring)", 2001.
Colorphotograph, edition 3/3.
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Yasumasa Morimura, Self portrait as movie
actress, (Black Marilyn) cibachrome print, 1996
Yasumasa Morimura Portraits Shounen I, II, III,
colour photograph and varnish, 1988
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Entrance hall with Yasumasa Morimura's A
Magnanimous Prayer (two of three), 2003, inkjet
print on polythene sheet and Jeong So-Youn's
Stairway to Heaven, 2000, white feathers
MORIMURA Yasumasa, Black Marilyn, 2001.
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Osaka-based Morimura, 47,burst onto the
international art scene about 10 years ago with
his "Art History" series, computer-aided
reconstructions of great Western paintings that
featured the artists big-nosed face replacing
the faces of the works original subjects. The
high-tech Japanese kitsch was embraced by a
Western world passing through a period of growing
interest in sushi, economic miracles, and things
Japanese in general,
YASUMASA MORIMURA'S Dialogue with Myself
(Encounter) (2001), a DVD installation Video
still, Edition of 10Duration approx. 1 hour
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Stay with Art is one of a growing number of
exhibitions which addresses this issue,
attempting to bridge the gap between art and life
by bringing art back into the spaces of everyday
lifeof leisure, of work, of love, of sex, of
government, of worship. Anything, that is, but
the neutral space of the white cube. This
exhibition, which took place at the TPoint Hotel
in Osaka, was the second experiment in a series
of exhibitions organized by Megumi Matsuo, a
figure associated with Dumb Type who established
one of the first artist-run spaces in Japanthe
Voice Gallery in Kyoto. Outside of the museum
establishment, this project not only created new
relationships between art and the viewing public,
but also allowed works previously censored by
museums (Morimuras Black Marilyn and Kuwajimas
The Life) to be shown by finding private sponsors
unhampered by nervous boards and city
politicians.
For three days, each participating artist was
given a room in the TPoint, a hotel whose
interior was designed by SAGESHIMA Seiji. They
were each given the liberty to create their own
site-specific installationto make a total
environment in which the audience could sit,
relax, talk to their friends, be a voyeur, steal
a kiss, or speculate about what it would be like
to do so.
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Am I simply a funny image of Morimura dressed up
or is there many meanings behind this image of
me. Am I questioning the dominance of Europe in
establishing what is fine art? Am I meant to draw
attention to values themselves? Am I about global
hybridisation of cultures? Am I stating sexual
diversity or child abuse? The audience is keep
guessing.
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Self Portrait (Actress) Red Marilyn, 1996
Ektacolor Ultra II photograph86 5/8 x 65 3/4
inches(220 x 167 cm)
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Post modern artworks usually contain a number of
characteristics in Chasing Mr P . Some works
have several while others only a few.
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I caught MR P! You can tell by my face it was
hard work but the effort will pay off! Good
Luck in your HSC Boys Love from Mrs Broome.