Miss Spring, 2012
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Thu, 09/03/2020 – 15:43
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While confronting the 2011 nuclear disaster, Nara made Miss Spring (2012), a portrait of a wide-eyed girl with a high forehead who stands against a cherry-blossom pink background and stares straight at the viewer, with prism-like teardrops glistening in her eyes. A symbol of hope, this portrait served as the cover image for Ryūichi Sakamoto’s No Nukes 2012: Guidebook for Our Future. Miss Spring was used as a powerful backdrop banner by the protest organizers during the demonstrations.
Short Title
Miss Spring, 2012
Image
Tombstone
Acrylic on canvas
Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art
Source: lacma.org