iona rozeal brown

Listen to iona rozeal brown as she talks about her painting sacrifice, on view in the Museum's New Acquisitions and Rotations Gallery, and her artistic influences. Her painted subjects come from the idea of the Ganguro, which literally means "black face," and fashion-conscious Japanese teenagers. She combines this imagery with 17th- and 18th-century Japanese woodblock prints of geishas, bathhouse girls, samurai, and Kabuki theater actors. The results are extreme hybrids, the combination of traditional Japanese imagery with an overtly hip-hop stylization.

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[allonoddy]

Sorry, but I can't quite understand what she's saying...I'm hearing 'late etto' - but that doesn't seem to be right. What is she saying exactly?

Also, on this point of a man playing a woman because he has observed her - was there not also an element of it being inappropriate for women to be on stage? I thought that was more conventionally the case years ago.

I don't know much about Japanese culture at all, so I would appreciate some further illumination, thanks.

[thomiccor]

Great explanation!