I feel like artists are so humble. it really shows the humanity in there heart

I don't think art always has to carry a deep message. You can appreciate art for the style, aesthetic, and design.

When a dude just wants to do cool looking graffiti and somehow finds himself in the art scene where wannabe intellectuals try to find some deeper meaning...

I hate when art critics think they know ecactly what they're talking about cause they've been around gallery's. It's even worst when they praise an artist they try soo hard to make complicated.

I like how he literally said he isn’t trying to convey any message, and then all these art snobs decide to give it some overblown meaning.

Critic: In my opinion the skull and cross bones heads are masks, their hiding the foibles and fallibility that we all have KAWS: I don't really try and impose any certain feeling or reaction. Lmao

I mean I like KAWS , I think his art looks cool but for all that deep meaning bs the critics were spitting out, nah.

That british lady really pissed me off. Philosophical blah blah blah powerful characters, blissful mysticism, flowing colors... then it cuts to Kaws and he's just like "Ya. I liked to draw and then I wanted to make toys."

Back in the 90s when me and my friends would see his tags around NYC, we pronounced his name like K-AWS (chaos), so I still pronounce it like that.

the woman from yorkshire sculpture park is literally just repeating 'he is very good at painting... the painting... it's good' over and over in different words

I love his style. It’s like Disney cartoons but with a dark vibe to it. Super cool.

Guy is extremely talented with symmetry and lining.

I came across his work in the mid 90's in his graffiti period and honestly there were a ton of graffiti artists better than him so its funny to hear that critic talking about how he stood out as one of the best. In graffiti where style is king, out of all of his "kaws" pieces along with the ones shown on here, his letters dont really differ much. I'm not saying he isnt good but it was his skull logo that he just started slapping on everything he could think of that really gained him his popularity. His toys also helped. Haze was another really cool artist that was similar in ways and I thought would have been even better known. I'm really happy to see graffiti and or street artists get a little credit in the upity art world. Its the art people walk by and see eveyday that really has an effect on the world. The best art in the world may sit in museums that a small amount of people actually ever visit, or it might be on the side of a small local business getting seen by hundreds of thousands of people everyday they walk or drive down that street. Which of the two stands a better chance to make people think, influence new artists and bring change to the world? Anyway sorry to rant, from one of the 14 year old future artists in 1997 that came across these great graffiti artists, thank you for paving and showing us a way to actually make a good living doing what we love to do.

I've seen his career evolve like crazy. Amazing!

A true legend when it comes to street art.

That boi Lev Levarek got that BAPE tho 😳👌🔥

I think he just got lucky drawing cartoons. Can't deny that's what his art mostly is

Damn I never knew people were so salty about KAWS. I always really liked his style and his ability to translate his work across lots of mediums.

I've always loved his work. It was great learn more about his beginning.

did that guy really just say that we don't get the ecstasy of colour from nature, so we depend on it from art????? nature is full of colour, its intense with colour. landscapes and animal world

Uniqlo:So how many x's will be put on our shirts? Kaws: *Yes!*

Beautiful

Some of my favorite bit artist are James Jean, Kim Jung Gi , Mark Ryden , those are some of my favorite huge artist there’s so many underrated artist tho that I follow that deserve more recognition

Keith hearing poster in his room when he was a kid

Great piece. 👍

His characters r def lit. Doesn’t matter it has deep meaning or simply looking cool. No art is meaningless. It always represent artists themselves at least. However, as a fan, what really disappointed me is he didn’t create anything else new stuff since these classic pieces were displayed for ages. Artist is all about creation. I’m so keen to see Brian make new stuff with Kaws’ style to keep up refreshing us. :)

Love this

You can be an artist with no conscious intention but when Bloomberg covers your project you got to understand they've got their own interest. Modern graffiti is usually a visual protest against consumerism, lack of sense in society, public blindness - not very funny from the establishment's point of view. The fact that Bloomberg is covering it means (for me personally) they are trying to powder our brains, introducing non-existent complex meanings into his work, and as a result - learning how to manage the protest art. the benefit is obvious. Ask Mr.Chomsky.

@ 2:03 nice Pushead collection displayed!

Amazing

All the critics are so heavy handed in their "take" on Kaws, way too heady for the essence. Simplicity rules throughout his work and these cats are having a hard time wrapping him up in their standard vocab lol

I need to get my hands on one of these! BTS really know how to expand your mind when it comes to artistry. Glad I came here to learn more and discover a new form or art. Thank you BTS ands KAWS.

My inspiration

It's like anything else , if you can get certain people to buy into something then others buy into it ....Currency is printed art/ numbers on paper and we use it because it has perceived worth yet it's just paper and ink . Art can be used as currency as well which has perceived worth initially by a few because they say it has worth and from there others are told it has worth and then others believe it as well . In countries that have hyperinflation the currency becomes worthless yet it's the same ink and paper . If you get enough of the right people in the art world to say your art is worth something they promote it and others buy into that perceived worth .

I actually really like his art and sculptures, I find a huge meaning into this, idk why people are bashing him tbh

Your understanding nor approval are needed

Respect to Kaws and all, but this was unbearably pretentious. It's not that deep.

How do these artists not face any legal issues when using famous cartoon characters in their art? I love his work but I know he is not the only artist to implement other people's art characters in his work

true king! original .

Thanks

I love KAWS

The best of the new crop of famous artists since the 80's... He, Jeff Koons, & Murakami are "it"...

the x on the hands is probably misinterpreted, I would say its more of a stigmata thing

Toy Tokyo is seriously a mecca for any other toy nuts out there

Fact that KAWS vid gets 40K+ views vs. genius Wilhelm Sasnal only gets 5K tells you a lot about contemporary art.

I think of myself as an aspiring artist, and my dream is to be like KAWS. I have drawn a lot of inspiration from KAWs, but with my own touches here and there. I don't want to straight up steel his art style. I really want to be fresh and original, but that is really hard. I am still an amateur artist, and I have a long way to go. KAWS has been an inspiration for me ever since my friend showed me him on Instagram a few weeks back.

"I didn't know of artists" with a photo of him as a kid with a Keith Haring poster on his wall?

Kaws is still dope.

Does anyone know the meaning behind his art, like what does it symbolise with the x’s on the eyes etc. or does it have no meaning?

RM and JH love this

Didn't know his name ,but I know that toy

Is this a prank video? There’s nothing in terms of social commentary in “this artists” work. He just creates what looks cool to him. For others to pull out such deep meaning out of nothing is laughable.

'Nothing that Kaws does is ordinary...' - except everything he does is stolen from ordinary things...

Why this dude's work was elevated beyond your garden variety illustrations i dont know. Industry creation you ask me

What material is he using at 7:14 does anyone know?

Usually this used to be my favorite

🔥⛽🌋💯

Is he that Em&Em guy? Slim Sadie or whatever? The rapper?

cool

❤‍🔥

NAGR1 baby! 206 Seattle baby!

Ron English Rules!!!!!!

Stay Street Keep it Real Underground

18:33 "Oh, contemporary artist! I always feel like these labels aren't necessary. 18:51 "MaJoR CoNtEmPoRaRy ArTiSt"

How dope would it be to have an original Ad poster KAWS painted over in the day?

they should make some of the gloves on the figures that you can wear

19:24 Wowie, that thing sure is big. You wanna climb it or something?

kaws lit

si este artista fuera un personaje creado en un videojuego diría que tiene 100 puntos de inteligencia, 1 punto de mana y 100 puntos de suerte.

I realized KAWs is originally just a painting that became a toy, but nowadays it not only a toy. It can carry more things than a single toy. It carries people's WANTAGE somehow, the toy is just a format brings things out of people's mind and shows the designer's thoughts.

30,000 bones for something that critics make deeper than it really is....jesus..even brian said it's not that deep

8:17 the definition of reading into it too much

Chinese people are now in chaos buying shirts from Uniqlo with his work of art on it,apparently the shirts with his art on it are sold on big bucks online

Made the dopest js on earth

They put Kaws in the same category as Rembrandt and Angelo 💀🤦

lmaoooo yo this on my bday wtf

Walt Disney (de)generation

The irony of kaws making toys

Do you have iron patches

"he can do Rembrandt " oh for fuck sake

who is the dude in the yellow jacket?

Kaws did something real when he created the character and put it in unexpected situations, he changed something, but now all this repetition is just a gimmick.

It's amazing how a mickey mouse with balls ear mask can get so famous

Academic art critics drive me to drink I need a 40oz vodka tonic Luv Kaws

nice commercial

fourteen years younger and fourteen times more success than me, did there anything go wrong? (from my com-museum, book 46)

I put that blue one out there

It boggles the mind how a few simple concepts repeated can make someone famous & successful. It happens often though, so shouldn't be surprising. Just like any pop media. This guy isn't an artist. Real artists have tons of ideas. More like a street cartoonist tbh, but even they have variety. I don't even see aesthetic qualities in his work.

“Psychology on the molecular level” lol I love that Asian guy he’s so genuinely passionate

I wanna see a kaws cartoon

This guy is a legend.. shout out SWIZZ BEATS.. I came across this guy through him.. 2 legends.. incredible people

10:35 is scary

I no longer feel bad about being 37 and still wearing my upper playground jacket...

I dont hv special feelings about his work. Just here trying to work out why ppl like his figures.

people like to put meaning to meaningless ART just to look like they know what they are talking about... simple

something's missing between him being a graffiti artist and him making toys.... like how did he get that opportunity? how did they get popular?

🙏🏾✌🏾🐜mahalo

its not art anymore its just about business and capitalism

Kaws is legend

Is this still in yorkshire??