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Mavo
MAVO was a radical Japanese art movement of the 1920s. Founded in 1923, as a re-institution of the Japanese Association of Futurist Artists, the anarchistic artist group displayed an outdoor exhibit in Ueno Park in Tokyo in protest of conservatism in the Japanese art world. The group leader was Tomoyoshi Murayama (1901 - 1977). The group deployed an interdisciplinary array of performance art, painting, illustration and architecture, to communicate anti-establishment messages to the mainstream. Fueled by responses to industrial development, the MAVO group created works about crisis, peril and uncertainty. Art Historian, Gennifer Weisenfeld has written that Mavo sought to reintegrate art into daily life. Other artists involved in the movement include Masamu Yanase, Kamenosuke Ogata, Shuzo Oura and Shinro Kadowaki, and later Osamu Shibuya, Shuichiro Kinoshita, Iwane Sumiya, Tatsuo Okada, Michinao Takamizawa, Kimimaro Yabashi, Tatsuo Todai, Masao Kato and Kyojiro Haiwara, among others.“Mavoist” artists sought to disrupt or blur the boundaries between art and daily life. They rebelled against the establishment by combining industrial products with painting or printmaking, usually in collage form. Their performance art protests against social injustice deployed theatrical eroticism, that mocked public norms for morality at the time.
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Mavo (MA-vo) a derogatory slang word originating in twentieth century Portland, Oregon, USA, around the early nineteen sixties, slurring poor white youths from Portland’s eastern neighborhoods. Regarding its pronunciation, the “ma” is sounded like "MA" Kettle, the “VO” as in VOGUE.
"See his greasy hair and pegged pants? What a mavo!"
Etymology: The word MAVO originated in early 1960s Portland, Oregon, USA, to describe poor white teens in the SE sections of the city.
Submitted by cleanoregon on August 4, 2022
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of mavo in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of mavo in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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