YOKO ONO 
Yoko Ono, Japanese artist and musician, was born in Tokyo February 18, 1933 by Eisuke Ono Ono and Yasuda Isoke .
kanji in Japanese his name means "ocean child" while the surname means "little lawn."
In Tokyo, his is a privileged context: his is one of the richest banking families Japanese. He attended the Gakushuin, a prestigious academy in Tokyo, from the early school years up to that of maturity.
Ono's family during the Second World War, survived the bombing of Tokyo in an underground bunker.
After the war, Ono's family moved to Scarsdale, New York, USA, where Yoko will live most of his life.
He enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College in recent years, parents complained their way of life, punishing people because it is frequently considered inferior to his rank. Yoko Ono loves being surrounded by artists and poets. Often visited art galleries driven by the desire to expose herself in the future, its work. In 1956 she married the composer Toshi Ichiyanagi from which divorced in 1962. On November 28, 1962 married American Anthony Cox, a jazz musician, film producer and art promoter. The marriage is annulled March 1, 1963: June 6 remarry for divorce Feb. 2, 1969. Their daughter, Kyoko Chan Cox was born on 8 August 1963 following a legal battle to Yoko Ono is granted permanent custody of the child, but in 1971, Cox, which now becomes a fundamentalist Christian, kidnaps and Kyoko disappears . Yoko Ono finds himself the only daughter in 1998.
Yoko Ono was among the first members of Fluxus, an association of artists free of avangurardia that developed in the early sixties.
was among the first artists to explore conceptual art and artistic performances. An example of its performance is Cut Piece ", during which she sat on a stage and invited the public to cut with scissors the clothes on his back to stay naked. Another example of conceptual art is the book Grapefruit (Grapefruit), published for the first time in 1964, which included instruction in Zen style of surreal to be completed in the mind of the reader, like Hide and seek: Hide until everyone forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies. The book was republished several times, the largest edition in its 1971 edition, distributed by Simon and Schuster, was reprinted in 2000.
Yoko Ono has also directed several experimental films, 16 between 1964 and 1972, including achieved some success No. 4 of 1966, better known by the title Bottoms. The film is a series of shots of human buttocks of subjects walking on a treadmill. The screen is divided into four equal parts through the slot and the horizontal crease of the buttocks. The soundtrack consists of interviews with those who were shot or involved in the project. In 1996, Swatch produced a limited edition watch to commemorate the film. Ono's work can be best appreciated by an "open mind". She was, in fact, described as "the most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what to do." Ono's artistic production was more sometimes put down by critics, but his later works were reviewed by various scholars and art critics. In recent years his work has regularly won awards and acclaim.
In 2001, YES YOKO ONO, a 4-year retrospective of Ono's work, he received the prestigious American Association of international art critics as the best museum exhibition held in New York, considered one of the most important awards in the field of museums . In 2000 Ono was awarded the Skowhegan Medal for his work in various media. In 2005 he received the "Lifetime Achievement Award from the Japan Society in New York.
In 2001 the University of Liverpool assigns an honorary law degree. In 2002 she honorary degree as doctor of fine arts from Bard College.
Since the sixties, Yoko Ono was a fair and settled in favor of activist pacifism and respect for human rights. After their marriage in March 1969, Lennon and Yoko announced a Bed-In for Peace in the bridal suite of the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam. Journalists flocked to get into because they believed that the two have had sex in public, in front of their cameras, but instead found themselves facing a pair of newlyweds wearing pajamas who wanted to talk about world peace. In May of that year made a second Bed-In Montreal, from which came the recording of their first single "Give Peace a Chance" that under the new group name Plastic Ono Band was able to get in the top 20 best sellers. Along with John Lennon gave birth to many other forms of social protest, including Bagism that is to hide themselves in a purse or a bag to show that people should not be judged by appearance outside.
In 2002, Yoko Ono has created its own peace prize, a check for $ 50,000 for artists living in "war zones". The main targets were the Israeli and Palestinian artists.
In 2004 he re-recorded his song "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him", to support the cause of homosexual marriages, issuing two different remixes titled "Every Man Has a Man Who Loves Him "and" Every Woman Has a Woman Who Loves Her. "
Ono began a new challenge with his other contribution to the fourth edition of the Liverpool Biennial in 2004. With banners, bags, stickers, postcards, flyers and posters flooded the city with two images: a woman's breasts and a vagina. The work entitled "My Mummy Was Beautiful" (It. "My mother was beautiful") was dedicated to Lennon's mother, Julia, died when John was a teenager . According to Ono the work was innocent, not shocking and wanted to replicate the experience of watching a newborn's mother: the body parts are for the child introduced to humanity.
Some residents of Liverpool, including the half-sister Lennon, Julia Baird, consider the work offensive. The program of the BBC North West Tonight invited viewers to call to express their opinion and 92% of the 6,000 callers said he wanted to remove the image.
Chris Brown, a journalist for the Liverpool Daily Post, he appreciated the work and wrote: "Many have loved the work (...) and Yoko Ono was able to move back to the eyes of the world to us." The newspaper The Times of London was positive: "His contribution to miss the fourth edition of the Liverpool Biennial dominates the event and also seems to symbolize the new international Liverpool (...) (...) As always with the Brilliant ' art by Yoko Ono, has become a simple action radical action. " Responding to criticism
Ono said: "I did not try to insult Liverpool. In fact, when I thought the installation and this beautiful breasts and vagina of the mother throughout the city, I thought, 'Ah, it would be so nice', and it's like giving them love, because we are all born from our mother's body and the first thing to which we are fed: the womb. Somehow, people try to inhibit that memory. Women are placed in a condition to which they feel embarrassed of their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also so strange: we apologize for having created the human race. "
Of her artistic inspiration she said: "I'm always inside myself and listening What comes to mind. I'm like a conduit of a message that passes through me. I am interested in everything, too, every day. I am in love with life, the world, at any moment. "
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