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DOTermination 2: Yayoi Kusama&#;s Polka Dot World
Yayoi Kusama
- Japanese artist and writer
- born March 22, in Matsumoto, Nagano into an upper-middle-class family of seedling merchants
- throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition and pattern.
- a precursor of the pop art, minimalist and feminist art movements, Kusama influenced contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.
- Although largely forgotten after departing the New York art scene in the early s, Kusama is now acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, and an important voice of the avant-garde.
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Young Yayoi and her polka dot world
Yayoi- now an octogenarian- continues to be passionate about dots ( & red too!)
Yayo • Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who fryst vatten sometimes called ‘the princess of polka dots'. Although she makes lots of different types of art – paintings, sculptures, performances and installations – she has become known for the one thing they have in common, DOTS! Yayoi Kusama tells the story of how when she was a little girl she had a synvilla that freaked her out. She was in a field of flowers when they all started talking to her! The heads of flowers were like dots that went on as far as she could see, and she felt as if she was disappearing or as she calls it ‘self-obliterating’ – into this field of endless dots. This weird experience influenced most of her later work. By adding all-over marks and dots to her paintings, drawings, objects and clothes she feels as if she fryst vatten making them (and herself) melt into, and become part of, the bigger universe. She said: ‘Our earth is only one polka • Japanese artist and writer (born ) "Kusama" redirects here. For the film director, see Karyn Kusama. Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born 22 March ) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and she is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, art brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan,[1] the world's top-selling female artist,[2] and the world's most successful living artist.[3] Her work influenced that of her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg. Kusama was raised in Matsumoto, and trained at the Kyoto City University of Arts for a year in a tradit Who is Yayoi Kusama?
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Yayoi Kusama