My Fate is in Your Hand is an American oil painting created by Yasuo Kuniyoshi in
1950. The painting measures 40 ¼ x 24 ¼ inches (unframed) This artwork is currently on display at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, in the Bloch Gallery of modern art, L2. I will describe and interpret this artwork.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi was a Japanese-American artist born in 1889. He migrated to the
United States as a teenager, alone. He attended high school in California. One of the instructors told him he had great potential as an artist. He then focused his attention to this craft and later attended art school in New York. Yasuo found his purpose and love of art in America. Yasuo was a graphic artist, and photographer as much as he was a painter. Yasuo’s interest didn’t only lye in the arts, but also in the …show more content…
This painting was completed only 3 years after the end of WWII.
The grasshopper represents a leap into new beginnings, a new life of freedom. This is also an apparent representation with the new life inside the belly of the woman in the window. In the top left rectangle of the painting, Yasuo used color to portray a new light and a new day.
Diagonal to the grasshopper, there is a large human hand and in it is a caterpillar. The head of the caterpillar’s body is angled up toward the grasshopper as though it too is leaning toward new freedoms. The caterpillar will cocoon itself and with it, new faiths and opportunities’ will emerge.
Lastly, the hand- the hand is the largest of the forms in this piece. It is by man’s hand that all humanities fate lies. It is by man’s hand that all new opportunity and freedom shall be born- where all prejudice and unjust rules will be put to an end.
I think it was the end of WWII that inspired Yasuo to create this piece- in addition to the ostracizing of his wife by her born home and his love for that same country. If the intent of this work lies within its title, he most certainly reached the objective he set forth in its
1950. The painting measures 40 ¼ x 24 ¼ inches (unframed) This artwork is currently on display at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, in the Bloch Gallery of modern art, L2. I will describe and interpret this artwork.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi was a Japanese-American artist born in 1889. He migrated to the
United States as a teenager, alone. He attended high school in California. One of the instructors told him he had great potential as an artist. He then focused his attention to this craft and later attended art school in New York. Yasuo found his purpose and love of art in America. Yasuo was a graphic artist, and photographer as much as he was a painter. Yasuo’s interest didn’t only lye in the arts, but also in the …show more content…
This painting was completed only 3 years after the end of WWII.
The grasshopper represents a leap into new beginnings, a new life of freedom. This is also an apparent representation with the new life inside the belly of the woman in the window. In the top left rectangle of the painting, Yasuo used color to portray a new light and a new day.
Diagonal to the grasshopper, there is a large human hand and in it is a caterpillar. The head of the caterpillar’s body is angled up toward the grasshopper as though it too is leaning toward new freedoms. The caterpillar will cocoon itself and with it, new faiths and opportunities’ will emerge.
Lastly, the hand- the hand is the largest of the forms in this piece. It is by man’s hand that all humanities fate lies. It is by man’s hand that all new opportunity and freedom shall be born- where all prejudice and unjust rules will be put to an end.
I think it was the end of WWII that inspired Yasuo to create this piece- in addition to the ostracizing of his wife by her born home and his love for that same country. If the intent of this work lies within its title, he most certainly reached the objective he set forth in its