Yayoi Kusama born March 22, 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano is a Japanese artist whose paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation. (She has 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. She has long struggled with mental illness ant at times has been commited.
On November 12, 2008 Christies New York sold a work by her for $5.1 million, a record for a living female artist.
For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama
Art:
“.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, colorful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots become movement… Polka dots are a way to infinity.”
-Yayoi Kusama-
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