Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura is renowned for his parodies. In 1985, in a small exhibition, he applied oil paints directly onto his face and clothing, wrapped his ears with gauze, wore a cotton cap replicated with clay, held a tobacco pipe in his mouth, and asked someone to take a picture for him, thus completing a photograph that bears an uncanny resemblance to Van Gogh's famous work, "Self-Portrait".