This winter 40 years ago, a man named John Lennon was shot five times by a fan with a pistol on the way home, ending his young life, and today, 40 years later, because of Forbes' "2020 highest-paid deceased celebrity list", he was once again mentioned, and at the same time, it was his wife, Yoko Ono, who was even more legendary than him.
There was an era when it belonged to the "Beatles", it can be said that they are the most influential band so far, and there is no one, their songs have been popular all over the world, and to this day, there are still people who sing, and the popularity is not reduced. Yes, in the music world, they were a legend, and how many people went crazy about it at that time is not something we can imagine today. John Lennon is one of the band members and the soul of it.
For decades, because she was John Lennon's wife, everyone's impression of Yoko Ono seemed to be fixed, staying on this identity, and everyone relished her, mostly related to Lennon, even if she recently announced that she had given most of her career to her and John Lennon's only child, she was also insulted on the hot search, for the simple reason that John Lennon had passed 40 years and she was still consuming him.
But this is not the case, leaving aside John Lennon, Yoko Ono is also a god-like figure, as a Japanese artist, she is even more crazy than John Lennon, more untamed, look back at her past, and then look at her who is still fighting in the art sanctuary, it is simply impossible to help but sigh: this art world, really is not what we ordinary people can understand.
In fact, before becoming the wife of John Lennon, Yoko Ono was already a well-known figure in the art world. In 1964, at the age of 31, she performed her most famous performance art in her life, "Slices", at the Carnegie Recital Hall, and since then, she has left a strong mark in the history of performance art.
She knelt on stage with a pair of scissors in front of her, and randomly selected spectators could go on stage and cut off a piece of her clothes at will until she was naked. Such an art, many people can not understand, more traditional Chinese people call her "shameless", but for her, it is an artistic act of soul torture. This act is not just to let the audience cut off the clothes so simple, the person who cuts her clothes also has to give the fragments to the dearest people, cutting the clothes, is the ugliest act of human nature, can be given to the dearest people, but it is the most beautiful moment in human nature, such a contradictory collision between the two, is what Yoko Ono wants to show to everyone.
Yes, it was this work that made Yoko Ono famous overnight, and John Lennon, who was sitting in the audience at the time, fell in love hopelessly. John Lennon, who was also mad about art, was blown away by Yoko Ono, and years later he said that Yoko Ono was like a weird cocktail full of sexual desire, which made him completely fall.
Born into an aristocratic family in Tokyo, Japan, Yoko Ono had divorced once the year she performed Slices, and was less than two years old with her second husband's daughter. As if by fate, Yoko Ono and John Lennon, two "madmen", met in this form. The world of "madmen" is something that others can understand, they are like electric flint, suddenly bumped into a warm spark, they talk about philosophy, talk about art, talk about almost all kinds of things that we feel strange, for John Lennon, Yoko Ono is undoubtedly the light of his life, the endless inspiration for his musical creation, very quickly, these two "crazy people" are combined.
Their honeymoon then shocked the world again. For seven days, Yoko and Lennon were lying in their pajamas on the hotel bed, and the door was open, and the media could come in at any time to interview. Although their actions were crazy, their purpose was simple and full of warmth, and they called for "love, no war" for the "peaceful" war launched by the United States at that time.
Unfortunately, their marriage has never been favored by everyone, especially John Lennon's extreme pampering of Yoko, which has made Yoko the "woman who let the band break up". How much John Lennon loved Yoko, it can be understood in one move, he directly changed his name to John Ono Lennon, the reason why Yoko was reprimanded by others is because after John Lennon married, immersed in the passionate love with Yoko, almost no intention of creating, it seems that his inspiration can only come from Yoko.
Later, their son Sean was born. In order to better take care of the children and take care of the family, John Lennon temporarily retired from the music scene, such a decision naturally made fans angry. "From now on the king did not go to the dynasty", to tell the truth, john Lennon at that time really felt this way, he and Yoko were immersed in their own art world, and it seemed that there was nothing else.
In the world, this couple has always been a maverick being, and they express their love for the common human beings in their own unique, purest way, but precisely because of this, they are full of people, so as many people love them, as many people hate them.
Five years later, the happiness of John Lennon and Yoko came to an abrupt end. John Lennon is gone, and Yoko's artistic life continues. In fact, the crime of "the woman who disbanded the band" is not fair to Yoko, in the affection of Yoko and John Lennon, Yoko has always been the source of the art behind John Lennon, and it is Yoko who makes John Lennon's emotions richer and richer, which are integrated into John Lennon's creation and make his works more brilliant.
After Lennon left, Yoko never married, the precious thing is that she never consumes Lennon, although the world talks about her, always have to contact Lennon, but in this long time, Yoko, this tough, strange woman has always struggled to move forward on her own artistic road, she buried her head in Lennon's "love and peace" creation, she wants to live with Lennon's share, create together, in her heart, Lennon has always been there.
Yoko once told the media about Lennon, who was her husband, lover, friend, partner, veteran of the battle... The artist always has the purest, hottest, most sensitive nerves, and because of this, she still lives so warmly, so affectionately. Even at the age of 87, she still fights on the road of art.
Maybe we can't understand their behavior, but we can't help but be moved by their "delusion", which is both artistic and emotional, because of their "delusion", the world is more colorful and full of beauty.
Let Yoko continue to fight and enjoy her idealistic world.