Yayoi Kusama

Examining illness as a metaphor through an early and recent work of Yayoi Kusama and the impact it has on the spectator Examine a body art/live art practitioner in depth, using two pieces of their work as case studies. Using these pieces, contextualize the artist within the history of body-based/ live art performance This essay will explore illness as a metaphor, something that is representative or symbolic, within Yayoi Kusama’s work and the way in which it enables the spectator to reflect, along with illuminating how we can learn through, and from, metaphors. Kusama’s works are an expression of her mental illness and the traumas she faced as a child, through the way in which she ‘manages’ and releases her energy. Her works enable the spectator…

Yayoi Kusama. Narcissism, Abstract and Minimalism: Everything merges with her inner vulnerability. In this essay I will examine the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, focusing on her performances and their meaning through her body's mental state as it progressed. I will also reflect on any potential narcissistic indications in her work. In addition, I will concentrate on her mental illness and how she used it in and through her art. I will investigate how much she has contributed towards, and what…

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Being a pioneer in the minimalism and the feminist art movement, Yayoi Kusama is constantly pushing boundaries in the realm of culture and art. Every element in Kusama’s artwork, such as repetition, pattern and accumulation, questions the viewers to rethink social and political norms of society in the hopes that it would inspire change to gender equality. Her installation, Walking Piece, serves as an exemplary example of dissolving boundaries between humanity, art and environment. Dressed in a…

Yayoi Kusama Yayoi Kusama, Beyond the End of the Century, 1987 Acrylic on canvas, 162 cm x 130 cm Beyond the End of the Century is an abstract work whose subject matter consists of red circles of varying sizes, each with a red line trailing behind it as though it has a tail. These are set against a plain white background. Kusama’s use of line implies the movement of the red figures: the “tails” trailing behind each red circle have an organic and fluid shape, making it seem as though the…

the art world, but also a time of immense inventiveness and change. Two artists in particular, Yayoi Kusama and Kimsooja, illustrate how one can break the artistic mold, while also obscuring, or even infusing, ideals of various religions at the same time. It is clear that although they have begun…

In 2005, Yayoi Kusama created You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies. Created in the 2005 addition to The Phoenix Museum of Art – it has become a popular work of art in the collection. Using mixed media, the room is made up of mirrors on the ceiling, floor, and walls that reflect the glow of the tiny LED’s hanging in the room by small strings. In this work of art, You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies, Kusama helps us see the world in new…

Located at the Phoenix Art Museum is a unique work that was purchased “with funds donated by Jan and Howard Hendler” and created by Yayoi Kusama in 2005. The piece is titled You Who are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies and is a “mixed media installation with LED lights” that was created as a permanent piece to the Phoenix Art Museum’s collection. The work can be found in the South Wing on the Upper Level in the Contemporary Art section of the museum. The intention of this…

alternative media of unexpected spaces. Yayoi Kusama’s case study on her work Self-Portraits (1962), Jones argues that photography as “evidence” of an event and the importance of the “presence” of the body comes from the authoritarian notion of artistic techniques. She also notes that performance and photography share a character in which both substitute physical presence for a language of aesthetic conventions. In performance the body is the “presence” of the subject; in photography what is…

with the huge number of charming dots of different shape, size, arrangements and colours . The woozy melody of Frank Sinatra’s ballad “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” captured the height of America’s polka dot love—that spring, the Los Angeles Times said , “You can sign your fashion life away on the polka-dotted line, and you'll never regret it. In 1951, Monroe was famously photographed wearing a polka dot bikini. Nine years later, the release of Brian Hyland’s hit song, “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie…