What is the true origin of the emojis, and who was its creator – Teletrece

First box: “The starry night” of Van Gogh. Second box: “The young ladies of Avignon” by Picasso. Third box: how an emoji of happy face?

original designs: of those popular drawings that are both used in the messages by cellular phone will be presented at the main entrance of the Museum of Modern Art New York (MOMA) from December 2016 to march 2017.

No place more visible or higher distinction than the MOMA.

The museum, which includes works of the most influential artists of the last two centuries, it acquired the 176 illustrations designed almost two decades ago and who revolutionised the way we communicate.

in Addition to the first emoji inspired by the popular happy face also is the cat scared, the broken heart and the hand-waving.

Couple watching the box a Starry Night by the Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh

As is obvious at the first look, we’re not talking about pictures of a great delicacy graph.

The strokes are simple and are pixeleados.

of course this has to do with its antiquity, but before we review its curious history, first try to answer the question that we all ask…

The origin of the emoji

In 1999, the japanese Shigetaka Kurita will be introduced to the japanese company, telecommunications NTT DoCoMo 176 illustrations.

The company had asked him to design pictograms simple to replace words in a market of cell phones grew explosively, but still had screens of spaces very limited.

The original idea is as old as humanity itself and can be traced back to the times of losjeroglíficos and ideographs.

“there is nothing so modern as a concept is timeless,”, tells The los Angeles Times and Paola Antonelli, curator of MOMA.

For your modern version, Kurita was inspired by the sleeves (the japanese cartoons), chinese characters, and even the signage of the streets.

it Is curious, but in the light of current technology, see the designs of 12 pixels of the emojis original gives us the sensation of reading glyphs of an ancient civilization.

Even some of the original drawings of Kurita continue to still a mystery unless you search for its meaning on the internet.

color Circles, scattered points, a wooden horse and figures to be decoded require a capacity of abstraction superlative, abound among his designs.

what Is this art?

“(emojis) are a sample powerful of the ability of the design to alter human behavior“, says Paul Galloway, specialist at the department of architecture and design at the MOMA.

it is Not for less.

According to a survey from the site Statista in 2013, 74% of americans is already used emojis all day.

In 2015, made another survey where 70.4% of americans responded that they turned to the emojis because it helped them to express your message more accurately.

it Is precisely because of its relationship with the emotions that in Spanish they are called emoticons.

“These masterpieces planted the seeds of a explosive growth of visual language,” adds Galloway on his blog.

If art is a way of interpreting the world, the emoji could be the sign of our times.

In a world with more than 2,000 million cell, the text messages have replaced all the spoken conversation.

Pac-man and Tetris

The company NTT DoCoMo sent emojis at the MOMA in digital format and free of charge.

But it is not the first time that the Museum of Modern Art in New York expands its collection with the “objects” digital.

the symbol for The at sign @ is also on display since 2010 and provoked a revolution in his time.

“Since it is not necessary that that which is to acquire and display a physical object,” said Antonelli at this time.

In 2012, the MOMA bought copies of the game “Pacman”, “Tetris” and “SimCity 2000″, to display them in the same building that houses works by Matisse, Pollock, Warhol or Kahlo.

At this step, the new art forms they do not need large spaces or galleries.

Is more, we can now say, with all the property, which we carry in the pocket for a small museum of modern art.