Yayoi Kasama
Famous for her hypnotic dot work paintings, Kasama depicts her trauma and childhood in her lifetime body of work. On her family field of flowers she often lost her self and felt consumed by the mass. With her parents not supporting her artistic ambition she often felt her feelings and emotions building, art was a form of expressing and controlling these thoughts. Dots were her shape and illustrated the universe or flies in the sky. Being one, lost in a crowd of millions. I like how she has stuck with this iconic style and no matter the feedback she kept developing it. With the advise of Georgia O'Keeffe she took her art to America aiming to change the art scene. Many ignored her for being a woman and Japanese in a post war society. She eventually pushed her work into the public eye, but still didn't receive gratification for her work. Her style starting appearing but with male famous artists like Warhol and Judd. These recognised her art but took advantage of her underdog position in the art world. I feel that this possibly developed her work with the pain and depression came her infamous infinity rooms and soft sculptures. These stood out from more conforming art of the time, she knew how to catch the eye with falic, yet interesting sculptures. However, I feel that they dont give an experience or express emotion like the installations and repetitive paintings.
The initial idea for the rooms and paintings came from a plane window view which looked out over the pacific ocean with the never ending fishing nets. She could feel herself being immersed in the net and the overwhelming mass took her back to the flower fields of her childhood. The paintings really strike me as bold and textured in comparison with the pop art of the time, more graphics based.
The development of her work being ignored led to the infinity rooms which she first created after the new interest in space travel and the moon landings. She created small rooms where the viewer could peer into mirrored boxes with lights like the stars that seemed to never end. This i feel was like glancing into the mind of kusama, a way of her expressing her depression with beauty of art.
Famous for her hypnotic dot work paintings, Kasama depicts her trauma and childhood in her lifetime body of work. On her family field of flowers she often lost her self and felt consumed by the mass. With her parents not supporting her artistic ambition she often felt her feelings and emotions building, art was a form of expressing and controlling these thoughts. Dots were her shape and illustrated the universe or flies in the sky. Being one, lost in a crowd of millions. I like how she has stuck with this iconic style and no matter the feedback she kept developing it. With the advise of Georgia O'Keeffe she took her art to America aiming to change the art scene. Many ignored her for being a woman and Japanese in a post war society. She eventually pushed her work into the public eye, but still didn't receive gratification for her work. Her style starting appearing but with male famous artists like Warhol and Judd. These recognised her art but took advantage of her underdog position in the art world. I feel that this possibly developed her work with the pain and depression came her infamous infinity rooms and soft sculptures. These stood out from more conforming art of the time, she knew how to catch the eye with falic, yet interesting sculptures. However, I feel that they dont give an experience or express emotion like the installations and repetitive paintings.
The initial idea for the rooms and paintings came from a plane window view which looked out over the pacific ocean with the never ending fishing nets. She could feel herself being immersed in the net and the overwhelming mass took her back to the flower fields of her childhood. The paintings really strike me as bold and textured in comparison with the pop art of the time, more graphics based.
The development of her work being ignored led to the infinity rooms which she first created after the new interest in space travel and the moon landings. She created small rooms where the viewer could peer into mirrored boxes with lights like the stars that seemed to never end. This i feel was like glancing into the mind of kusama, a way of her expressing her depression with beauty of art.
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