The Visionary Flowers (Yayoi Kusama)
I tried to capture 'The Visionary Flowers' by Yayoi Kusama all individually, but the garden is rather small and the flowers are standing close to each other, like in a real garden ;-))
So only a closer view and a look inside.
""The first known photograph of Yayoi Kusama as a small child is an arresting image: her beautiful face with its grave expression appears above a cluster of gigantic dahlias, each bloom larger than her small head.
In a watercolor of 1950 entitled Self Portrait, the sunflower is an anthropomorphic stand-in for the artist herself.
Flowers have continued to populate Kusama's imaginary since the beginning of her career, and it is evident that the gay yet monstrous flower sculptures of today have their origins in the surrealistic specimens that pervade the landscapes of her early paintings.""
info -internet
The official website of Yayoi Kusama is yayoi-kusama.jp , where you can see all her artworks.
"The Visionary Flowers" (2002) is displayed at the entrance of the Matsumoto City Museum of Art (松本市美術館), Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan.
"The Visionary Flowers" is an open air sculpture, painted fiberglass-reinforced concrete; 720-1/2 x 639-3/4 x 416-1/8 inches (1830 x 1625 x 1057 cm).
The Visionary Flowers (Yayoi Kusama)
I tried to capture 'The Visionary Flowers' by Yayoi Kusama all individually, but the garden is rather small and the flowers are standing close to each other, like in a real garden ;-))
So only a closer view and a look inside.
""The first known photograph of Yayoi Kusama as a small child is an arresting image: her beautiful face with its grave expression appears above a cluster of gigantic dahlias, each bloom larger than her small head.
In a watercolor of 1950 entitled Self Portrait, the sunflower is an anthropomorphic stand-in for the artist herself.
Flowers have continued to populate Kusama's imaginary since the beginning of her career, and it is evident that the gay yet monstrous flower sculptures of today have their origins in the surrealistic specimens that pervade the landscapes of her early paintings.""
info -internet
The official website of Yayoi Kusama is yayoi-kusama.jp , where you can see all her artworks.
"The Visionary Flowers" (2002) is displayed at the entrance of the Matsumoto City Museum of Art (松本市美術館), Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan.
"The Visionary Flowers" is an open air sculpture, painted fiberglass-reinforced concrete; 720-1/2 x 639-3/4 x 416-1/8 inches (1830 x 1625 x 1057 cm).