KAWS: Across Boundaries - Flip the new power of art

KAWS's real name is Brian. Brian Donnely, born in 1974 in New Jersey, USA. In the 1980s, Hollywood movie Star Wars, Transformers popular, TV show Sesame Street, Snoopy, Garfield, Simpsons and other cartoon albums, these virtual characters accompanied by Brian's childhood, most of the world's children of the same generation, almost popular in the United States Cultural influence. Bit by bit of the growing impression, gradually puzzled his fantasy and imaginative fantasy world.

In 1987, Brian became interested in graffiti, arbitrarily painting on his notebook, because he was studying Catholic school, deliberately painting some anti-religious things, or looking like a cool monster. In high school, he was more advanced and changed to wall graffiti. Young people loved the Tag label's own name. However, graffiti is an illegal act after all, and cannot use the real name. So Brian designed the four-letter KAWS, and since then it has been in the name of KAWS.

Alongside the more commercial sector, KAWS portrayed his passion for painting on large canvases and paintings inserted into plastic blister packages. Many speculated that this interest originates from the time when the artists was employed at Disney as an animator, a period which intensified his appropriation of iconic characters from comic books and popular culture. These sentiments are manifested in some of KAWS’ early series executed in the 2000, entitled “The Kimpsons”, where the artist subverted the predominant American cartoon, The Simpsons into his own artistic productions. KAWS reasons that “I found it weird how infused a cartoon could become in people’s lives; the impact it could have, compared to regular politics.” Moreover, a reworked of other iconic characters that became the central characters in KAWS’ paintings include the Smurfs, Sponge Bob Square Pants, the Michelin Man and Mickey Mouse. KAWS’ unique artistic approach deliberately blurs the boundaries between art, design and product. KAWS once said: "I am always interested in abstraction because it is related to animation at the basic level. Before the painting is identifiable, painting itself is an abstract process." The cartoon image created by the "X" shape is KAWS's imprint, and the main image is more intense. It becomes a password, and it also emphasise the way that KAWS communicates with the world across boundaries.