Label Text:
Born Iijima Takao, Ay-O assumed his artistic name following graduation from the art department of the Tokyo University of Education in 1954. In the early 1960s, he lived in New York City, where, after Yoko Ono introduced him to George Maciunas, he participated in the “Happenings” of the Fluxus movement. Though he worked in a variety of media, notably including his tactile “Finger Boxes,” he is most renowned for his vivid, rainbow-colored silkscreen prints. Here, he has chosen as his subject a still life by Paul Cézanne. By reworking one of Cézanne’s best-known—and most valued—motifs, Ay-O offers a playful critique of the brand-driven expectations of the art market, enhanced through the use of his own signature trademark, polychrome silkscreen printing.
BB, 2014
Subjects:
screen prints; Silk Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=AC+2010.26 |
