Dots, dots, dots, how obsessed can one artist be with dots? Well, it seems that Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama certainly is, a lot. Her paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation. Yayoi has even described herself as an obsessive artist.
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.
Early in her career, Kusama began covering surfaces (walls, floors, canvases, and later household objects and naked assistants) with polka dots, which is now a trademark of her work.
"...a polka dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka dots become movement... Polka dots are a way to infinity." thus Yayoi Kusama.
Yayoi Kusama , who is now almost 80 years, is seen as one of the most influential and widely collected artists of the 1960's and up. Her work is still on display in different exhibitions around the world. For example, begin this year it was on display in Miami and now in the Towada Art Centre, Aomori, Japan.
Written for BLEND.
Early in her career, Kusama began covering surfaces (walls, floors, canvases, and later household objects and naked assistants) with polka dots, which is now a trademark of her work.
"...a polka dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka dots become movement... Polka dots are a way to infinity." thus Yayoi Kusama.
Yayoi Kusama , who is now almost 80 years, is seen as one of the most influential and widely collected artists of the 1960's and up. Her work is still on display in different exhibitions around the world. For example, begin this year it was on display in Miami and now in the Towada Art Centre, Aomori, Japan.
Written for BLEND.
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