I’m seeing reviewers expressing surprised disappointment that Hideo Kojima’s inaugural solo outing has turned out to be a somewhat repetitive set of game mechanics awkwardly stapled to the side of a deeply confusing art film, and I’m wondering what version of Hideo Kojima’s body of work they’re familiar with that this is in any way unexpected.
THIS OFFICE HAD ITS BLINDS UP AND THIS IS WHAT I SAW
i’m losing my mind. this is a high rise office building on the upper east side of manhattan. and the only piece of art on the wall in this office is a bikini clad anime girl with humongous bazookas that are bouncing out of sync. this can’t be real someone wake me up
I know this print, it’s actually considered a fine art piece! It’s clearly based on Takashi Murakami’s live-sized statue ‘Hiropon’:
Which, yes, she’s skipping rope with milk that she’s lactating from her bazongas. It’s actually part of a set, the other one being titled ‘Lonesome Cowboy’:
Which features a Cloud look-alike lassoing with his cum.
Murakami is well known for taking ‘low art’ subject matter (anime, hentai, penises) and placing them in ‘high art’ contexts. I actually saw Hiropon in personal with my own two eyes at the Denver Museum of Art back in 2009. A lot of what he does is satirical, and it’s honestly pretty funny to see pictures of his artwork in American museums, surrounded by confused white baby boomers.
That said, without the context, it DEFINITELY slaps you in the face and makes you question what the fuck is going on. Had I not found out who he was in college, Hiropon would still haunt me as the most confusing thing I’ve ever seen in a museum.
god thank you for explaining this but also i’m still being slapped in the face as i type
There are no words for how much I fucking LOVE this.
This is FANTASTIC art and as someone with an art degree lemme tell you why.
Now it might just be the way that it’s hanging but it looks like you can almost see the work done on the other side. Even if you can’t really (it could just be looseness in the canvas), there still is a fantastic tension between the work and the viewer. The audience is seized by curiosity about what is on the other side. What could possibly be the image and what is the mistake to justify such a dramatic shift to hide it? Is it just a small issue that nobody would take offence to or is it a glaringly obvious fault? There’s a strong history of frustration from the artist visible behind this peice but it’s reason is as hidden to us as the original image.
And so there’s a strong connection to this not with just curiosity and frustration between the artist and the viewer but also of privacy. The artist does not want us to see the peice, be it terrible or simply flawed. They do present the work, but it is not to us the viewer to flip it around and reveal the source of the artist’s frustrations. We respect it, or should at least, because the moment we see the reverse side we both know the severity of the flaws but also disrespect the artist’s choice to not show it to us.
I wish I could turn this in for my final and get the praise and recognition of this post instead of a failing grade
I’m very excited for my latest craft experiment, where I rhythmically slap sale rank oil paint onto a canvas and I see how long it takes to dry so that I can finally touch the paint textures I stare at so longingly in museums. 12 hours in, still wet. I am beginning to think this might take longer than I thought which you can imagine is quite a burden, as I am absolutely horned up to rub this paint.
You guys sound like you know what you’re talking about but I’m gonna touch it every twenty minutes just to be sure
I’ve put this canvas to age in the basement like a fine wine, along another recent masterpiece of mine “I put the paint on me hand and I slap the canvas like a bongo”
Paint slapped on 6/9, as of 6/22 (I mean actually it was a couple days ago but I didn’t fully check the dryness then so I can’t be sure):
It is rubbery feeling and the peaks of paint move when you flick them. The texture is not at ALL what I expected tbh and it makes me excited to try a different experiment, thick brush strokes, you know, those mad thicc ones that swirl real good
Here’s an additional shot with my coffee cup for a further sense of scale so people will understand that these canvases are small and therefore stop sending me asks about my supposedly gorilla sized hands, you bastards, you rotten bastards scared of the hands your minds gave me
I don’t know shit about art but isn’t this like a great example of art that pushes the boundaries of what art is? Like you’ve got your canvas with paint on it, but your reason for putting the paint there is totally different than why most people put paint on stuff. It’s like a study on texture or something.
Agreed, this is really cool and also I love the fact that you really wanted to touch some paint, so you just went out and bought a bunch of paint and made your own painting for touching purposes. That’s striking me as really really cool right now for reasons I can’t entirely articulate.
