Paralympics 2020
“The Sky above the Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa”
Gaze Woman
Sofonisba Anguissola
A N G U I SS O L A
No second “N” in last name
1556 Artwork
“Self Portrait at the Easel Painting a Devotional Panel”
Cindy Sherman
Show days
Location
Range of titles
8 JANUARY – 16 MARCH 2024
New York, Wooster Street
‘Untitled #631’ to ‘Untited #661’
Cindy Sherman topics
Malleability of the self
Beauty culture
Aboriginal painting
“Outsider” Gordon Bennet
1988
THE FOUNTAIN BOY symbols
Circular design - water cycle
Sun & Moon - Good fortune
Flowers & Fruit - Harvest of Nature
Water falling from dragon mouth - Circulation
Two yellow dragons - 2024 year of Dragon
7 nonhuman heads - Destruction & Creation = “Destruction & Rebirth” = Good fortune
Italian hair - Fountains as a meeting place in Rome
“Show Me the Monet” Appropriated artwork
The Japanese Footbridge
-Japanese ideal of nature and its plainful beautifulness
Araki Quote
I believe that people [can] grow by overcoming obstacles through the power of the human spirit and strength
How does Araki display his “affirmation that humanity is wonderful”?
By drawing people relying on their own strength
Cindy Sherman Quote
I feel I’m anonymous in my work. [Looking at my] pictures, I never see myself… Sometimes I disappear.
Gordon Bennett once criticised a student for labelling him as an Aboriginal artist, saying:
“I refuse to dump ‘one’ culture for another… I remain Anglo/Celtic/Aboriginal, but I don’t believe any artist should be identified by race.”
“Show Me the Monet” Analysis
Shopping carts and cones in water twists original work’s appreciation of beauty, showing an unsightly scene that shows the modern disregard for nature due to sloth and consumerism.
BRight orange cone juxtaposes greens, pinks and purple of nature, creaing start contrast that emphasises the dmage of consumerist values as it destroyed the cohesion of the natural landscapes colours. Emboldining the idea of consumerist values of contemporary sciety damaging the world.
“The Sky Above the Great Wave of the Coast of Kanagawa” Quote
“I imagined the gods of sport coming fown freom the sky to Tokyo.:
“The Sky Above the Great Wave of the Coast of Kanagawa” colour
Araki spent a long time choosing the colour of Mt. Fuji.
Sky is purple - complimentary colours. Most of the image.
Mt. Fuji is yellow, bringing attention to it and symbolising the gold medal the racers try to reach across the sky.
“The Sky Above the Great Wave of the Coast of Kanagawa” appropriation
Original piece captures the majesty of he oceans which seemed impossibly powerful at the time.
Araki respects this, but acknowledges our advancement as the two racers and planes fearlessly run towards it. Addtionally, the two racers are placed in the foreground, and are of equal size fo the wave.
Represents the advancement of humanity or the admirability of the overcoming of the struggle to become an athlete as a disabled person.
“Outsider” appropriation
Depicts an Aboriginal man with no head and blood spurting out into “The Starry Night”.
Decapitated in the “Bedroom in Arles”.
Two stone statue heads reminiscent of Ancient Roman and Greek statues and Renaissance statues lay on the bed.
All convey a message of an Aboriginal man’s culture taken away from him and destoyed, stealing his dientity as he is assimilated into the culture taking over Australia.
Only place culture is left in tact is the dead body
Heads on bed depicts how the man feels duplicitous, forced to take on two identities, but both have becme unoriginal - identities given to him as his culture is removed from him.
“Outsider” colour
Contrasting dark purple and blue sky with soft, light yellow and brown room distracts and hints at assimilation happening silently and unknowingly.
“Outsider” alternate meaning
Duplicitous due to being raised white with white heritage, but also being from Indigenous heritage. Feels fake to identify as one or the other.
Banksy speaking on violence
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules.
This can relate to mindlessness in contemporary society.
