Identify the Artist (577)
Week 6 Identify the Artist III
Female Artists Only
[This photograph was identify the painter (577)]
This artist is In SET I
This artist is Japanese
This artist is Female
Date: 1998
This painting is found in Memorial Art Gallery
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Yayoi Kusama Japanese b. 1929
Statue of Venus Obliterated by Infinity Nets , 1998
Acrylic paint on fiberglass and canvas
From the very beginning of her career, Yayoi Kusama has had herself photographed in front of her paintings and within her installations painted or dressed to match her surroundings, representing her self-obliteration in which she feels herself “dissolving and accumulating, proliferating and separating” into her art. In the 1960s, Kusama staged pioneering art performances, or happenings, in which she painted groups of nude performers with polka dots. Her Venus series related to her career-spanning obliteration of the human body in her work.
In 1998, Yayoi Kusama was “rediscovered” when her early New York period was featured in a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. In the midst of this acceptance from the art establishment, Kusama created her Venus series for a show of her recent work at a Manhattan gallery. The Memorial Art Gallery’s Venes is number five from the edition of ten, each painted with a different pair of colors. Kusama wrote “I placed ten life-size reproductions of the Venus de Milo ( Alexandros of Antioch, 130-100 BCE, Louvre Museum) in a circle inside the gallery space…The body of Venus, the paragon of physical beauty, disappeared among the nets.”
The strong visual vibration experienced by viewers is created by the pairing of bright green and pink and the infinity net pattern; the effect references the artist’s New York period during the height of the psychedelic 1960s. The disorienting optical experience enhances the sensation of the figure’s dissolution into the relentless pattern.
Marion Stratton Gould Fund, 2013.20.1-2
From the placard: Memorial Art Gallery
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama
www.davidzwirner.com/artists/yayoi-kusama/
www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/11/yayoi-kusama-infinity-room...
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Identify the Artist (577)
Week 6 Identify the Artist III
Female Artists Only
[This photograph was identify the painter (577)]
This artist is In SET I
This artist is Japanese
This artist is Female
Date: 1998
This painting is found in Memorial Art Gallery
.
.
Yayoi Kusama Japanese b. 1929
Statue of Venus Obliterated by Infinity Nets , 1998
Acrylic paint on fiberglass and canvas
From the very beginning of her career, Yayoi Kusama has had herself photographed in front of her paintings and within her installations painted or dressed to match her surroundings, representing her self-obliteration in which she feels herself “dissolving and accumulating, proliferating and separating” into her art. In the 1960s, Kusama staged pioneering art performances, or happenings, in which she painted groups of nude performers with polka dots. Her Venus series related to her career-spanning obliteration of the human body in her work.
In 1998, Yayoi Kusama was “rediscovered” when her early New York period was featured in a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. In the midst of this acceptance from the art establishment, Kusama created her Venus series for a show of her recent work at a Manhattan gallery. The Memorial Art Gallery’s Venes is number five from the edition of ten, each painted with a different pair of colors. Kusama wrote “I placed ten life-size reproductions of the Venus de Milo ( Alexandros of Antioch, 130-100 BCE, Louvre Museum) in a circle inside the gallery space…The body of Venus, the paragon of physical beauty, disappeared among the nets.”
The strong visual vibration experienced by viewers is created by the pairing of bright green and pink and the infinity net pattern; the effect references the artist’s New York period during the height of the psychedelic 1960s. The disorienting optical experience enhances the sensation of the figure’s dissolution into the relentless pattern.
Marion Stratton Gould Fund, 2013.20.1-2
From the placard: Memorial Art Gallery
.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama
www.davidzwirner.com/artists/yayoi-kusama/
www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/11/yayoi-kusama-infinity-room...
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