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Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生 or 草間弥生, born March 29 or March 22 ,1929) is a Japanese artist. Her paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation. Her work shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She describes herself as an “obsessive artist”. Kusama is also a published novelist and poet, and has created notable work in film and fashion design. She has long struggled with mental illness.

Yayoi Kusama is one of the interesting and amazing artist that i have ever seen with some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism in her pieces of work. Her work is really inspired and influence to any of the designers if they would like to create a piece of art with those combinations. I just love the fact how she combine it with pop art, she makes every single pieces of her work so unique. modern plus can express the message to the audience. And again she is one of the artist who really influent me.

Reference :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama
http://ijulian.blogspot.com/2008/04/yayoi-kusmawhimsical-sculpture-delights.html

Arina Tanemura (種村 有菜), born in 12th March 1978 in Aichi, Japan. She is a Japanese manga artist who does mainly Shojo manga. Her first debut work was a one-shot chapter entitled The Style Of Second Love which pubilished in short-Tempered Melancholic. Her first full manga was I.O.N, released in 1997. Her works mainly released in Ribon Magazines, with series published in collected volumes by Shueisha.

She is one of the artist who inspired the most while I was studying A-level. she is a very contemporary artist as she just graduate in loughborough university in 2003. Since Lora Redman graduated,  she even start illustrating for The Independent, The Guardian, The Lawn Tennis Association,The Big issue, TES, Ace Tennis Magazine, People Management,Community Care, Delicious Magazine and Nursery World. her work is insanely influent me when i was struggling of creating a new piece of work for my A level projects.

She uses collage – mix media, drawing, print making, and paint overlapping texture, sometimes she would work on it by using photoshop right after she finish her collage. The material she uses for her work are paints, papers – newspaper, old books texture, different sort of wrapping paper, etc.

The fact that I like her work so much is the affort – the time how much she spent on her piece of work just to overlapping and draw over the image and get the final illustration, which is successfully interesting and memorable to the audience. the way that how she presents her work and the layout is really sharp and interesting. I have learnt so much since I found this artist.

Reference:

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/mainpages/viscomm/hall%20of%20fame/redman/redman.htm
http://www.loraredman.com/

EatPes has been made so many animation video of short and for different companies and products such as Scrabble, Orange, PSP, Coinstar, Bacardi etc. The videos that they made are so entertaining and interesting for the audience. Even I was really into the videos when I watch them. The mainly materials of their video is only object just as papers, sweets, toys, tools, stones, decorations, food etc. to picture a sence and capture the movement and combine together by using sequence of images.

Western spaghetti is one of the interesting and memorable video that I have ever seem from Eat pes. Even though the spaghetti itself in this video is not attractive enough to hunger the audience, but the interesting combination such as the toys, foil paper. colour papers, sweets, art craft  – eye balls, elastic band, wooden sticks etc. and using different sizes to represent cropping and cooking /boiling. the fact that i like it so much is they use some simple daily objects, combine and build the sense, their affort can really tell in their pieces of work. they are definitly one of the influent artist in my list.

Scrabble – toy advert

GAMEOVER

(this is a very unusual one that they have made - human, and again, they make it really realistic with the Background Music, really inspired)

Reference:
www.eatpes.com
www.youtube.com – and search “eat-pes”
http://www.eatpes.com/orange.html