Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama is a painter, sculptor, film-maker and a performer however she is best known for her works featuring repeating motifs and psychedelic imagery that bring themes of psychology, feminism, obsession, sex, creation, destruction and intense self-reflection. Kusama was born in 1929 in Matsumoto city where she started painting at the age of 10 to escape a childhood of neglect and expressing her early experiences with "hallucinogenic" visions. Her use of "apparitions" consisted of dots and patterns within her works embraces her surroundings, showing issues of mental illness which have carried on strongly, influence her works.

http://www.artnet.com/artists/yayoi-kusama/biography

2008Jo Applin. Resisting Infinity, Yayoi Kusama. London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2008 (cat.)

The title of this work is Standing on the Riverbank of my Home town I shed tears which was created in 2009. The medium is painting, acrylic on canvas. The artists have used quite bold colours which seem to be contrasting with each other. The dark colour in this piece makes the piece to appear very dramatic and stands out really well. There are use of thick lines, where some part of the lines are continuous. Curved lines are also represented, looking wobbling and flowing. 

Although this work look childlike and simplicity which will make other people think that it is fun and playful which I first thought about when I saw it first
but looking,  closely at the red colours within the painter it look to be between light and slightly dark. The idea of using this colour immediately shout out danger, passion, sexuality, sensitively, love, will power, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, malice and wrath. Combining the different shades of this colour and looking at her bring up it shows that, although she paints to escape her horror childhood but no matter what she is still deeply hurt and confused. We begin to understand that these pains have scarred her forever as we start to feel compassion and sorrow for her. Kusama uses of dull yellow in the art works makes the piece colour look quite decayed and incorporating it show she is bringing awareness to the audience that although that she is sick but she is a very strong woman who is caution. 


Seeing this beautiful, soft painting full with colours it is dark and mystery, holding a very deep meaning with its black colour representing something evil power and death. It starts to make a a person feel scared at its spooky, disturbing message. Although the dull yellow, black and red seem to be telling a story of her horrifying childhood the use of using a light blue which sees like a river shows that as time past she is healing and is beginning to get over with her past. The eyes are almond with out of scale dots at the top and on the lashes. Using different sizes of wobbling circles could have been she did it so that they could all fit on the canvas and make the material look busy. 

I really like the use of her colours that attract people to her art works and think that they are just pretty and does not involve a lot of working but when you really study it hard you will understand the difficult thought that went thought and emotions that went through it. 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/yayoi-kusama/5

Although Miytake represent his work on fashion shows Kusama represent hers in gallery which are proably on canvas. Her work seem to be open to wider range of people to go into the gallery to see. The place will be quiet giving the viewers to try and think really hard about what is going on into the painting instead of Miyake presentitions.