Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama, (Avant-garde Artist) has inspired my whole view and interpration of Art... I personally adored the Dots obsession in her installions also pieces of work, they make an amazing impression and a strong love for her work. Kusama has changed Art into something one could only dream to design or have her talent, making it more Appealing, extroindary, Innovative, and Dominating the entire population of the country. Tokyo’s Ambassador awarded Kusama also regarded Yayoi Kusama the greatest living Artist. The name “Yayoi Kusama” stands for Inspiration and an unusual way to create. One opportunity she had was designing In a corporate environment the Tokyo Audi building ,now I think the whole concept of it all is one of a kind my interest will be to follow her work through many years to come.
Influence Number One
At the age of 10 Kusama found herself daydreaming, of an inspiration of her famous dot pattern. Kusama says“"I was sitting at a table, looking at a table cloth covered in red flowers...then I looked up toward the ceiling. There, on the windows and even on the pillars, I could see the same red flowers. They were all over the place in the room, on my body, and extending to cover the entire universe...unless I got out of there, the curse of those red flowers would seize my life! I ran frantically up the stairs. As I looked down, the sight of each step falling apart made me stumble. I fell all the way down the stairs and sprained my leg."
In’ Mother,’ a piece of work she created it was 25 x 22cm pencil on paper work, and was drawn soon after the incident, the 10 year-old covers her a sketch of her mother’s face, but with dots. This is very astonishing but also helps you understand all the hidden meaning behind the work of Kusama.
So as we can see Yayoi Kusama was heavily influenced by the fact of her dreams and all these dots appearing day and night almost like from her expressions in her works of art, it’s her interpretation and vision on how she sees the world, so she began exploring her visions and hallucinations through her artwork. Yayoi Kusama’s world multiplies from nothing to infinity.
She says
(Quote) ““I face the canvas and my head is empty, as I draw it rounds out, it spreads in my head. I am a genius all around, everything I make is splendid.”
Influence Number Two
Yayoi Kusama and her Mental illness, the effects it’s had on influencing her Life and aspects created in her work.
(Quote) Nonetheless, it is important to acknowledge that mental illness has majorly affected kusama’s work. Indeed obsessive accumulation, arguably the most consistent element in kusamsa’s production seems to be a by product of her hallucinations.”
There is a relation between Kusama’s work influencing her, such as her dreams of the dots obsession, repeition and her mental illness which shows you a bit about how unusual, creative yet also unique she is.
She says, (Quote) She called her art (work) “Art Medicine” In a way she was suffering very badly and wanted to commit suicide a few times. I would say her art was the only way to express and really was her “Art Medicine”
Kusama repeatly connects her creative and artistic originality, when she refers to the various styles and subject matter in her works and states. All of her themes originate from her mental nervous disease.
Influence Number Three
Environment and Objects
It was Kusama who also created a few environmental Installations and works, in 1960’s. The names of her environmental pieces were, Fireflies on the water, walking on the sea of death, the earth in late summer, the moment of regeneration. Now these were all influence by her surroundings or by object around her work ‘The earth in late summer’ was when Kusama went through a faze where all objects around her such as a chair a table a cabinet , a boat, she would design the environment on them or them , all around her. It is very inspiring also an idea that’s right there in front of us but we tend to miss as being an influence on art.
Kusama drew comparisons to the feminine body or life, clichés of young, beautiful, innocent and exotic. She has continued to use performance to experiment with theseclichés throughout her career, examining her gender as well as her cultural background.
These investigations of personal identity share a number of values with Surrealism, including disjunction, multiplicity and rupture. The artist largely explored these values during her period of living and working in New York. In works such as Walking Piece 1966
Kusama deals with the struggle to adapt to changes of self and environment and as a Japanese woman artist, she
Addresses feelings of isolation and cultural displacement.
Kusama describes growing up in Matsumoto, Nagano as "Truly miserable. She was an unwanted child born of unloving parents, was frequently beaten by her mother. In Kusama’s oft- quote easy ‘why do I create art?’ Kusama writes that “If I hadn’t been for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago from an inability to stand thee environment.”Two years after the end of World War II, Kusama entered the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts. Kusama’s first show was held in 1952, at the Matsumoto Civic Hall. Her early work was well received by critics, and also attracted the attention of Shinshu University, and introduced her work at psychiatric conferences. A doctor she came across at a conference also advised Kusama to get away from her abusive mother. The artist resolved to move to America, the home of her hero Georgia O’Keeffe.
Weirdness escalated in the public events that followed - flag burnings, a ‘Nixon Orgy,’ and the celebrated ‘Obliterate the Horse by Polka-Dots’ [1968], in which the Kusama pasted hundreds of her now-trademark dots onto a horse in Central Park. In the Art shock-sweepstakes of the late 1960's, Kusama and Warhol were running neck and neck.
"People often make the mistake of associating Kusama with the late 1960s flow of avant-garde Japanese artists that went to New York for the recognition they couldn’t get here," Spring 1997 Kusama opening party at Tokyo’s Ota Fine Arts Gallery. "But really, she was way ahead of the everyone even her time, she was the first."
Cornell’s death left Kusama dangerously isolated, and her mental condition began to deteriorate. She experienced frequent hallucinations and bouts of severe depression and developed heart problems. Kusama returned to Japan. Her father died two years later, and despite out-patient psychiatric treatment, Kusama’s anxiety neurosis was now unmanageable. In 1977 she entered the psychiatric institution.
Kusama has lived in the same hospital for over 20 years. There is no furniture, save a bed. Her 12 square-meter room has a big, French-style bay window that looks out onto a small garden. Kusama sometimes watches people playing tennis in a court that lies behind the garden. Every morning after breakfast, Kusama walks five minutes up Gaien Higashi Street to her studio to paint. She walks back to the room for lunch, then returns to her studio and works through the afternoon. Kusama takes her dinner at the hospital before retiring each evening."It’s very comfortable, very private" says Kusama, "And very simple, I like it."
1Yayoi Kusama
Day time Obsession
2. Audi Tokyo. (Iceberg building)
‘Polka dots are a way of infinity’
These three works (installations) of Yayoi Kusama communicates ones obliterating individual self. As from even being a little girl it was obvious she was different I mean this in the best way possible. Kusama’s work communicates a lot of dots and everything else she does, she has even exerted a great influence on the art work of American and European artists, as well as other artists, especially
Lucas Samaras’ Mirror Room,
Claes Oldenburg’s Soft Sculpture and
Andy Warhol’s
Stereotypical Repetition: Cow Wallpaper,
In which cow heads are repeatedly shown on posters all over the walls.
These are the historically famous titles Kusama invented. I have been involved in Pop art, Minimal art, Happenings,
Environments, Avant-garde films and others, as well as in Zero in Europe, while pursuing and realising her philosophy.
Refrenceses
Library book, Yayoi Kusama 1958-1968
You Tube Videos
Dots Obsession, Yayoi Kusama wellington Gallery
Princess of polka dot, Queen of polka dots
Downloaded a book, The Myth of the mad artist, (Works and writing by Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama’s webpage
Wikipedia
Google
My example of written research that is relevant to my work.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCE:
I downloaded ,
Electronic Book.
Borggreen Myth of the Mad Artist Yayoi Kusama
Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies
Written comment on my relevance of my Artist Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama;s relevance to my work is very aspariational, relevant in shapes, colour, boldness , pattern and very OTT (Over the top) like me and everything i do, (My work) . Its not always put how i imagine though ..here is a image thats very relevant :
My favourite work ive done all year.
My OTT (OVER THE TOP) Black and White Paper cut-out ,Pop up world
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