Yasumasa Morimura's Blinded by the Light is a clear appropriation of Pieter Breugel's Parable of the Blind. In close reference to the materials, techniques and art elements employed by both artists, we are able to understand how they communicate their ideas, feelings and effects in their artworks. Painted in 1568, Parable of the Blind is a religious painting where Breugel portrays "a single moment but implies a whole sequence of events." In the Gospel of St. …
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…the question of defining the notions of fiction and reality, as well as defining the limits between them, in contemporary art. In conclusion, we can clearly see that in reworking the Western masterpiece, Parable of the Blind, with an Asian male playing the the six blind figures, Morimuras's intentions in artmaking is to address the issues of essentialism, the "natural" categories of East (Oriental) and West (Occidental) and the "natural" categories of masculine and feminine.