{"id":1243,"date":"2021-05-12T06:37:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:35:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:35:31","slug":"murakami-melting-dob-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/image\/murakami-melting-dob-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Murakami &#8211; Melting DOB D"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1009\" src=\"http:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LARRY_QUALLS_10313736070.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LARRY_QUALLS_10313736070.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LARRY_QUALLS_10313736070-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LARRY_QUALLS_10313736070-768x757.jpg 768w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LARRY_QUALLS_10313736070-675x665.jpg 675w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LARRY_QUALLS_10313736070-480x473.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Creator:<\/strong> Takashi Murakami<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Title<\/strong>: Melting DOB D<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Work Type: <\/strong>Paintings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2001<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> Exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of Art, Spring 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Material:<\/strong> Acrylic and on canvas mounted on board<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Measurements: <\/strong>39 \u215c\u201d x 39 \u215c\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image URL: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/library.artstor.org\/#\/asset\/LARRY_QUALLS_10313736070\">https:\/\/library.artstor.org\/#\/asset\/LARRY_QUALLS_10313736070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murakami\u2019s <em>Melting DOB D<\/em> depicts a heavily warped version of his iconic Mickey Mouse-esque character, DOB, on an empty grey background. Inspired by Mickey and other widely circulated pop culture icons such as Doraemon, the concept of DOB implies a level of \u2018cute.\u2019 Although both the simplistic, rounded mouse shape of the artwork and the <em>kawaii<\/em> style of the eyes implies a level of this non-threatening cuteness, the cute has been \u2018melted\u2019 into something that appears far more threatening. The face has been covered with overlapping eyes and large, fanged mouths. In addition, what may normally be thought of as ears display similarly mutated faces. <em>Melting DOB D<\/em> plays with the concept of cuteness as something that simultaneously evokes the desire to cuddle and control something perceived as helpless. DOB embodies the ugly feelings evoked by viewing something cute, in addition to illustrating the weaponization of cute. What feelings are evoked when the cute, supposedly helpless object is given the capacity for retaliation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hana Tanabe &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:h%74%61n%61%62%65@%63on%6e%63%6fll%2e%65%64%75\">htanabe@conncoll.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creator: Takashi Murakami Title: Melting DOB D Work Type: Paintings Date: 2001 Location: Exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of Art, Spring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","tag-japan","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}