Yayoi Kusama

About Yayoi Kusama

Paintings, collages, sculptures, performance art, and environmental projects were among the works of this Japanese writer and multimedia artist. She was well-known for her passion for psychedelic hues.

Yayoi Kusama is a contemporary Japanese artist working mainly in the fields of sculpture and installation, but also works in painting, performance, cinema, fashion, poetry, novels and the arts ... other techniques . Her work is based on conceptual art and demonstrates several attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, art brut, folk art and abstract expressionism, and infused into autobiographical, psychological and sexual content. . She has been recognized as one of the most important living artists in Japan. Kusama grew up in Matsumoto and trained at the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts in the traditional Japanese painting style called nihonga. However, Kusama is inspired by the American School of Abstract Impressions. She moved to New York in 1958 and was part of the pioneering New York scene throughout the 1960s, especially in the pop arts movement.

Born	Yayoi Kusama草間彌生, March 22, 1929, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
Movement	Pop art, minimalism, feminist art, environmental art
Known for	Painting, drawing, sculpture, installation art, performance art, film, fiction, fashion, writing
Nationality	Japanese

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Trivia

She was admired and respected by many of her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.

Yayoi Kusama before fame

At the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts, she studied Nihonga painting, a technique with which she rapidly felt dissatisfied.

Achievement of Yayoi Kusama

Many of her peers adored and appreciated her, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Yayoi Kusama family life

She was born into a wealthy and traditional Japanese household. During her childhood, she struggled with hallucinations and extreme obsessive thoughts, as well as suicide impulses.

Associations of Yayoi Kusama

Both she and Grace Hartigan had exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art.

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