2. Dubbed the "Princess of the Polka"
Artist and Japanese writer, born on
March 22, 1929 in Matsumoto
(Nagano) in an upper middle class
family of seed merchants. Kusama
started creating art from a very early
age what led her to study Nihonga
(Japanese-style paintings) in Kyoto.
Frustrated with this Japanese style
became interested in the avant-garde
American and European In 1957 he
moved to the United States, settling in
New York City where he produced a
series of paintings influenced by
abstract expressionism
3. The disease has been present in the life
and work of Kusama. Since childhood he
has had mental problems, hallucinatory
episodes that have served as inspiration
throughout production.
Throughout his career, he has worked
with a variety of media including:
painting, collage, sculpture, performance
art and installations, most of which
exhibit his thematic interest in
psychedelia, repetition and patterns. It is
a precursor to the movements of pop art,
minimalism and feminist art. It is
recognized today as one of the most
important artists of Japan and a very
important avant-garde voice.
in the early 1960s it was associated with
the Pop Art movement. Kusama drew
public attention when he organized a
series of happenings in which she painted
naked participants with spots of bright
colors.
5. Everyday objects
She began covering surfaces (walls, floors, and later household objects and naked bodies)
with moles which would become the personal brand of their work.
6. Large fields of moles or "infinite networks" as she called them, were taken
directly from her hallucinations.
His first large-scale series, Infinite Networks, were completely covered in a
sequence of networks and lunar alluding to his hallucinations.
9. Despite the attention to detail the drawings quickly finished and bagged, setting a rate of productivity
even maintained. It also established other habits, such as being photographed with their new jobs.
