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Rainbow Manifesto

DTE Studio — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 15:13:06 +0000

Rainbow Manifesto: April 15th, 1966

    Cover your head with a yellow hat because Tristan Tzara didn’t cover his head with one in 1916, 1918, 1919 and 1920.
    Wear a violet coat because Jean-Paul Sartre, who said it hasn’t been sufficiently noted that the constructions, paintings and poem-objects of Surrealism were the manual realization of sterilities by which the sceptics of the Third Century B.C. justified their perpetual “epoche.” After which, Carneades and Philo, sure of not compromising themselves by an imprudent adherence, lived like everybody else. In the same way, the Surrealists, once the world is destroyed and miraculously preserved by its destruction, can shamelessly give full play to their immense love of the world never wore one.
    Wear red gloves because fifteen years ago I was blamed by a Japanese Communist for not painting a red flag.
    Wear orange pants because Circumference = 2 Π r
    Wear green socks because the area of the circle = Π r²
    Put on blue shoes
        but Π = 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884
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Ay-O – Images

DTE Studio — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:11:23 +0000

Ay-O – Bio

DTE Studio — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:10:57 +0000

Born 1931 in Ibaraki Prefecture as Takao Iijima, Ay-O is a Jpanese artist, who is internationally known as the Rainbow Artist because of the rainbow-striped motifs in his artwork. He graduated from Tokyo University of Education in 1954. Ay-O started his career in the Demokrato Artist Association, which was created by artist Ei-Q in promoting artistic freedom and independence in making art. In 1958, he moved to New York. In 1961, Ay-O was introduced to George Maciunas by Yoko Ono, and formally joined Maciunas in Fluxus in 1963. He started producing his signature rainbow prints in 1964, and represented Japan at the 1966 Venice Biennale.

His works are included in the collections of numerous museums including the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and Kyoto, the British Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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Ay-O is featured in Sanbusaku 2 三部作