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Born 1929 Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-Ken, Japan. Known for: Obsessive pattern painting, collage, sculpture, installation.
Born in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-Ken, Japan, Yayoi Kusama became a colorful personality in the New York art world of the 1960s and has been described as an "outsider, eccentric, an obsessive, a femme... Read full biography
Born in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-Ken, Japan, Yayoi Kusama became a colorful personality in the New York art world of the 1960s and has been described as an "outsider, eccentric, an obsessive, a femme fatale and a nonentity" . Her paintings reflect childhood hallucinations, and her art has been an... Read full biography
Born in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-Ken, Japan, Yayoi Kusama became a colorful personality in the New York art world of the 1960s and has been described as an "outsider, eccentric, an obsessive, a femme fatale and a nonentity" . Her paintings reflect childhood hallucinations, and her art has been an attempt to exorcise those demons. In the late 1950s, she began a series of Infinity Net Paintings that reflected with dots, nets and flowers her childhood affliction of suffering from repetitive... Read full biography
Born in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-Ken, Japan, Yayoi Kusama became a colorful personality in the New York art world of the 1960s and has been described as an "outsider, eccentric, an obsessive, a femme fatale and a nonentity" . Her paintings reflect childhood hallucinations, and her art has been an attempt to exorcise those demons. In the late 1950s, she began a series of Infinity Net Paintings that reflected with dots, nets and flowers her childhood affliction of suffering from repetitive hallucinations. In the early 1960s when she first gained attention, she covered many of her canvases with webs and spots and created "compulsion" furniture with stuffed phallic protuberances. These experiments with soft sculpture, mirrors and repetitive... Read full biography
Born in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-Ken, Japan, Yayoi Kusama became a colorful personality in the New York art world of the 1960s and has been described as an "outsider, eccentric, an obsessive, a femme fatale and a nonentity" . Her paintings reflect childhood hallucinations, and her art has been an attempt to exorcise those demons. In the late 1950s, she began a series of Infinity Net Paintings that reflected with dots, nets and flowers her childhood affliction of suffering from repetitive hallucinations. In the early 1960s when she first gained attention, she covered many of her canvases with webs and spots and created "compulsion" furniture with stuffed phallic protuberances. These experiments with soft sculpture, mirrors and repetitive images preceded similar work by Claus Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. In those years, she also did nude protest... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Installation Art
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Art Pottery
- •Assemblage
- •Bronze
- •Ceramic Art, Porcelain, Design and/or Decoration
- •Ceramics
- •Charcoal
- •Clay, Earthenware Vessels
- •Enamel Paint
- •Fiberglass
- •Found Objects, Junk, Recycles
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Metal, Metalwork, Metal Plates, Metal Point
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Painting on Glass, Glass Design, Studio Glass Art
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Plaster
- •Resin
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Performance Art, Happenings
Art Subject
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Hand-Crafted Objects
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Allan & Susan Marion Collection
- •Karen and Robert Duncan Collection, Lincoln NE
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Asian
- •Japanese
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Venice Biennale
Art Movement
- •NO!art
Exhibition of Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art