Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono is one radical artist. Watch this.

I'd never really thought of Yoko Ono as anything but John Lennon's widow. I'd never even asked the question, "What does Yoko Ono do?" Answer is....anything to promote peace, pretty much. Okay, that's cutting her work short. She's done a lot of things in the past 50-60 years. She's kind of cool and she's kind of crazy which equals some interesting art. Not all of it I like, for example the Voice Piece (from above), although it does send a loud message (pun intended). She's been doing exhibitions since the 1960's. She does paintings, drawings, sculptural work, sound work, video work, performance pieces...you name it, she's probably dabbled in it. I find it funny that I've never looked into this before. I wouldn't say I'm a crazy Beatles fan, but I'm definitely a fan, and I know thing or two about them, their members, and more specifically about Lennon's relationship to Ono. It comes up in crossword puzzles all the time. 


Yoko Ono on being an artist:
"I didn't label myself. I didn't think I was avant-garde, I thought I was me, just doing my thing." (quote from http://www.a-i-u.net/stampart.html)


The woman definitely does, and always has, marched to the beat of her own drum. She creates art to evoke strong responses.