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Comment on I hate Audrey Kawasaki girls by blowuprobot

blowuprobot — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:06:09 +0000

@mona: interesting, i hadn’t really thought about the ethnicity of the girls.

@melissa: i think you are being a little harsh – on both yourself & audrey. your works are much more experimental than audrey’s and have a greater subject range… maybe the problem is that there isn’t (yet) a category for contemporary art that focuses on female subjects created by women? and that’s why people compare your artwork to hers?

sort of like, if someone said, “I’m an author. I’m writing a diary.” one might say, “That’s not literature.” but if the diary were well-written and called a ‘memoir’ and dealt with complex topics, then it might be considered literature.

i think part of the problem is that ‘ingenue w/angst’ is not recognized as a serious topic, and maybe it should be.

Comment on I hate Audrey Kawasaki girls by Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:40:58 +0000

This is the only good result I found by typing “I hate Audrey Kawasaki”. I agree with you, she is not an artist. But I think she is not even a great illustrator. It´s quite easy to draw the same beautiful girl again and again. Everybody likes pretty faces, that´s the mistery of her success, so, what´s the challenge? I began to hate my own work when I saw hers, I´ve never followed her style, but people has told me a lot of times that both look quite similar, and that´s so discouraging…

Comment on I hate Audrey Kawasaki girls by mona

mona — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:13:01 +0000

I came here over google cause i wanted to find out if anyone expressed a thought about her rei-terating the same recipe ad nausea. I hate how the girls are just blueprints of the typical peachy glossy-lipped lolita fantasy, and even more that they are all so ideally almond-eyed. They re not really asian, but just the right little amount of it to come across as exotic, but not too foreign to put the mainstream viewer off.

Nope, this is not art.

Comment on I hate Audrey Kawasaki girls by blowuprobot

blowuprobot — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:43:13 +0000

holy shit, that sounds like the kind of dreams that i used to have when i was little!!

i think i agree with you on the no-irony + gender switch thing…

Comment on I hate Audrey Kawasaki girls by eugene

eugene — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:08:18 +0000

yeah, if audrey were a boy, this sort of idealization of women could be dismissed as pubescent boy fantasy. but the fact that she’s a girl… i don’t know. i don’t see anything ironic there that would make me believe she’s critical of the images.
i had a dream the other night that you lived in my building in chinatown when we were little, and that we were being chased by skeletons with swords. weird, huh?

Comment on I hate Audrey Kawasaki girls by blowuprobot

blowuprobot — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:58:52 +0000

haha i think i would be even more annoyed if audrey wasn’t asian! kind of like how tokidoki is italian… but he’s a dude, so i don’t care as much. OH!!! if audrey were a boy i would just roll my eyes and not care!

Comment on I hate Audrey Kawasaki girls by cilsong

cilsong — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:17:21 +0000

Well said.

Would you still feel the same if this person Audrey wasn’t asian??