Forbidden Fruit
Artist
Keisuke Mizuno
(United States, born Japan, born 1969)
Date2000
MediumGlazed porcelain
DimensionsH x W x D: 4 x 11 x 8 in. (10.2 x 27.9 x 20.3 cm)
Object TypeCeramics
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Friends of the Beach Museum of Art purchase
Object number2002.461
On View
Not on view• This ceramic work is from Keisuke Mizuno’s 1997-98 Forbidden Fruit series.
• The phrase “forbidden fruit” is associated with the story in the Book of Genesis, in which Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit of knowledge of good and evil and are expelled from the Garden of Eden by God.
• Decaying fruit has been used by artists for centuries as a memento mori, or symbol of the fleetingness of life. The Latin phrase literally means, “Remember death.”
• The artist has said about his work: “That’s what I want to do, draw you into the piece and then I’ve got a surprise for you.”
• The phrase “forbidden fruit” is associated with the story in the Book of Genesis, in which Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit of knowledge of good and evil and are expelled from the Garden of Eden by God.
• Decaying fruit has been used by artists for centuries as a memento mori, or symbol of the fleetingness of life. The Latin phrase literally means, “Remember death.”
• The artist has said about his work: “That’s what I want to do, draw you into the piece and then I’ve got a surprise for you.”
