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Yayoi Kusama


Born     22 March 1929

Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Painting, drawing, sculpture, video art

Yayoi Kusama; born March 22, 1929) is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of mediums, including painting, collage, sculpture, performance art and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychadelic colors, repetition and pattern.
Born in Matsumoto, Nagano into an upper middle class family, Kusama started creating art at an early age, going on to study Nihonga painting in Kyoto in 1948. Frustrated with this distinctly Japanese style, she became interested in the European and American avant-garde, staging several solo exhibitions of her paintings in Matsumoto and Tokyo during the 1950s.
 In 1957 she moved to the United States, settling down in New York City where she produced a series of paintings influenced by the abstract expressionist movement. Switching to sculpture and installation as her primary mediums, Kusama became a fixture of the New York avant-garde, having her works exhibited alongside the likes of Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and George Segal during the early 1960s, where she was often associated with the pop art movement.
 Embracing the rise of the hippie counterculture of the late 1960s, Kusama came to public attention after she organized a series of Body Festivals in which naked participants were painted with brightly colored polka dots.
In 1973, Kusama moved back to her native Japan, where she found the art scene far more conservative than that in New York. Becoming an art dealer, her business folded after several years, and after experiencing psychiatric problems, in 1977 she voluntarily admitted herself to a hospital, where she has spent the rest of her life.
From here, she continued to produce artworks in a variety of mediums, as well as launching a literary career by publishing several novels, a poetry collection and an autobiography.
Kusama's 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. Kusama is also a published novelist and poet, and has created notable work in film and fashion design.
Major retrospectives of her work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art and Tate Modern, whilst in 2008 Christies New York sold a work by her for $5.1 million, a record for a living female artist.
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The reason I chose her………………….I find her work joyful…………………it makes me happy.

delete reply hedgewitch9 wrote on Mar 5 Love it! :))

delete reply vickiecollins wrote on Mar 4 Interesting use of the dot...cant say she is my favorite artist,but interesting to see her work. http://vickiecollins.multiply.com/journal/item/1379/Art_Sunday_Colin_Farrell

delete reply brendainmad wrote on Mar 3 I agree with what Frank has said, and, while I do like that lasr bit of sculpture, all those polka dots would definitely give me psychological problems.

delete reply rabbitfriendhere wrote on Mar 3 Very happy art indeed! :-)

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Mar 3 kathyinozarks said very fun art-thanks for introducing me to this artist How's the weather where you are? Hi Kathy..............weather not too bad, been really nice all week but now its weekend its cold and we've had some rain... typical!! But I still managed to get out and about so it wasn't that bad. How is it with you? hear its been quite bad over there.

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Mar 3 thanks folks.................I think this is 'fun art', and a bit of fun, something not too serious is good for us sometimes. I don't think I could live with it all the time, but just for fun...........it brightens my day. I rather like the one with the silver balls floating in some sort of pool.............I think that one is a bit different to the rest, but on the whole, they remind me of 'telly tubby' land.

delete reply veryfrank wrote on Mar 3 Joyful and colorful for sure. Don't think I could handle all of the polka dots and confetti on a daily basis. The fourth up from the bottom is my favorite, it is different from the others and has an excellent depth and a sense of movement.

delete reply nemo4sun wrote on Mar 3 very fun and bright :)

delete reply kathyinozarks wrote on Mar 3 very fun art-thanks for introducing me to this artist How's the weather where you are?

delete reply mitchylr wrote on Mar 3 While I like her use of colour, overall I find her works a bit...umm...same-y. There doesn't seem to be any evolution to her works.

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Mar 3 also joyful and fun.......................