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  1. Yayoi Kusama - Wikipedia

    • She began covering surfaces—walls, floors, canvases, and later, household objects, and naked assistants—with the polka dots that became a trademark of her work. The vast fields of polka dots, or "infinity nets", as she called them, were taken directly from her hallucinations. See more

    BornYayoi Kusama (草間 彌生) · 22 March 1929 · Matsumoto, Nagano, Empire of Japan
    Known forPainting · drawing · sculpture · installation art · performance art · film · fiction · fashion · writing
    NationalityJapanese
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    Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, … See more

     
  1. Yayoi Kusama
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    Yayoi Kusama (born March 22, 1929, Matsumoto, Japan) is a Japanese artist who is a self-described “obsessional artist,” known for her extensive use of polka dots and for her infinity installations. She employed painting, sculpture, performance art, and installations in a variety of styles, including Pop art and Minimalism.
    Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist and writer, born in 1929. Well-known for her repeating dot patterns, her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and immersive installation.
    Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist known for her vibrant and colorful artwork, which often features polka dots, pumpkins, and other whimsical motifs.
    Yayoi Kusama’s art is a powerful testimony to art’s healing power and human resilience. Kusama is a female Japanese artist who is most famous for her work with polka dots. In her early years, Kusama was abused by her insensitive mother and suffered from mental illness.
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  3. Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors | Hirshhorn Museum

    Explore the works of Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist who uses polka dots and mirrors to create immersive and surreal environments. Learn about her life, career, and influences in this exhibition catalogue and online guide.

  4. Yayoi Kusama: Obsessed with Polka Dots - Tate

    Feb 6, 2012 · She has traded on her identity as an ‘outsider’ in many contexts – as a female artist in a male-dominated society, as a Japanese person in the Western art world, and as a victim of her own neurotic and obsessional …

  5. Who is Yayoi Kusama? | Tate Kids

    Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who is 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 …

  6. Yayoi Kusama and Her World of Polka Dots | DailyArt …

    Mar 12, 2024 · Yayoi Kusama is a well known Japanese artist and writer born in 1929. Check the incredible world of Yayoi Kusama's polka dots!

  7. Yayoi Kusama: A Polka-Dotted Revolution in Art - The …

    Sep 16, 2024 · Learn how Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist, created a distinctive style of polka dots and infinity, influenced by ukiyo-e art and avant-garde movements. Explore her famous works, such as Infinity Mirror Rooms …

  8. Yayoi Kusama: 10 Facts Worth Knowing on the Infinity …

    Feb 1, 2020 · Yayoi Kusama, known for her all-encompassing installations and polka-dots, is one of the most well-known and beloved artists alive today. She is the most famous living female artist and she was mentored by the world’s …

  9. Understanding Yayoi Kusama through 6 Pivotal …

    Jun 21, 2018 · “I would stand up to them all with a single polka dot!” Indeed, Kusama became just as influential as that of her modernist, male predecessors. Her early “Infinity Net” paintings, begun in the 1950s—monochromatic …

  10. DOT DOT DOT: THE LIFEWORK OF YAYOI KUSAMA

    Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929 to a prosperous family, owners of a nursery, in central Japan. By the time she was ten years old, she was already doing pencil drawings that featured her distinctive motif of dots and netlike patterns that …