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NUDES - From the Exhibition
It is only few years ago since Fujihara Michiyo first appeared with her masterpiece called “Illusion”. Her main topic through lifetime is SURREALISM understood as: "When two images are combined and brought to gather into a single one, the new image acquires a creating an innovative meaning"; this theme became the starting focus of her career as a photographer.
We have seen the similar topic introduced many times by Surrealist artists such as Rune Magritte and Harry Callahan when they endeavor to answer to the old-fashioned question, "What is Art-" nevertheless Fujihara is the one who attempted to answer it even before during the 1980's.
In her latest work "NUDES", her Surrealism style is present, but she is challenging her style breaking up the different parts of the images instead of what it has been seen in her previous works where she was trying to put two images together.
The nude image of a lady, where normally the intimacy of the skin color represents warmth is lost, acquires a different texture. This image created on us a new sensation that represents a different way of perceiving sexuality. There is an emphasis on the woman's silhouette, where the indigo blue and the wine-red are following each other, symbolizing the body lines with a strong sexual feeling.
It is perceived that when separating body and instincts one can feel and imagine an extreme sexual perception. When you look at Fujihara Michiyo’s masterpiece “Nudes” I would like you to self-introspect and get your senses ready to feel as much as possible from it.
Text By S.N
My Blue in the Nude - Michiyo Fujihara
When I was younger, I avoided experimenting with nude photography for several reasons. To begin with, nudes me blush. I couldn‘t rid myself of the feeling that nude photos were something of which of my ashamed. I feared projecting my own feelings about sex in my work. But putting aside my prudish preconceptions, I came to realize that much of what is great about many art works deals with sexuality and the physical self. It is, After all, the integral part of life for us all.
To break my self-imposed barriers, I began to study my own nude body in the mirror, looking at every part with solemn objectivity. Gradually, my feelings changed from shame and embarrassment to an equating of nudity with the natural beauty of the physical word, i.e., the physical existence which co-exists so well with the spiritual. When I was in an “up” mood, my body seemed to have a firmness to it, and my movements were lively and vivid. When I was in an emotional downswing, the opposite would be true. My body reflected my spirit.
I took great satisfaction in this personal discovery. The body is not some unyielding barrier holding in the sprit. It is our shell, our casing, one that constantly shifts and evolves according to both interior (mood swings) and exterior (age, nature) forces. I became fascinated in expressing myself through the human form, and nudes are now much easier and more honest subjects for my work than any other still life.
For my work on Nudes, I began by sketching the model’s body. I shot both by the sea and in the woods. While in the studio I made the model pose as I imagined myself. However as I worked, I felt something was missing. It was the color blue-transparent, yet from the deepest depths of the sea. In the darkroom, I persisted in my attempts to create this blue. Eventually I found gels that, when combined with black and white film, allowed the bodies to float through the sea.
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