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""So sorry, my dear, but I can't see any dots at all on your lovely tulip face and body, neither on mine……….., so I think we are not descendants of 'The Visionary Flowers', art by Yayoi Kusama.
But……..and that is the good news, you are so beautiful as you are and I love you with all my tulip-heart!!!""
Happy weekend everybody!!!!
""Yayoi Kusama, 草間 彌生 (1929) is a famous female Japanese artist and writer. Matsumoto City is her birthplace.
She is also called "The Queen of Pop Art".
One of her famous sculpture "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).
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, soft sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition, and pattern. A precursor of the pop art, minimalist and feminist art movements, Kusama influenced her contemporaries such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and George Segal and exhibited works alongside the likes of them.
A huge sculpture in the likeness of Yayoi Kusama has been erected on rue du Pont Neuf, between the headquarters of Louis Vuitton and the Samaritaine. Impossible to miss, the monumental clone of the Japanese artist repainted the facade of the building with colored dots.
Louis Vuitton Headquarters
--Paris--
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 I changed the background in this photo to emphasis one flower.
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).
Too-Ton is one of the polka-dotted dogs drawings, created by Yayoi Kusama. The other one is called Ring-Ring. (The main color is pink).
Location: Front wall of the Matsumoto City Museum of Art (松本市美術館), Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan, hometown of Yayoi Kusama.
The official website of Yayoi Kusama is yayoi-kusama.jp , where you can see all her artworks.
All the External Love I Have for the Pumpkins by Yayoi Kusama. I highly recommend you visit the Victoria Miro gallery to see this work, but be warned. You'll only have 20 seconds to take your shot!
I was in doubt about showing you this last picture of this series. Maybe you have seen too many Polka-Dots by now.
But here you can see how big the drawing of 'Toko-Ton' by Yayoi Kusama actually is on the wall of the the Matsumoto City Museum of Art (松本市美術館), Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan.
There was no time for visiting the museum, maybe next time…
I read in an article she is now called the 'Queen of the Polka Dots', no 'Princess' anymore ;-))
She is very remarkable lady of 91 years old and I admire her a lot.
A last quote from herself:
~~~I will continue to create artwork as long as my passion keeps me doing so. I am deeply moved that so many people have been my fans. I have been grappling with art as a therapy for my disease, but I suppose I would not be able to know how people would evaluate my art until after I die. I create art for the healing of all mankind.~~~
I edited the background, to emphasis the dots ;-))
Yayoi Kusama, the Princess of Polka-Dots, was also discovered by advertisement industry, as you can see here, the Coca-Cola dotted bench.
If you look on the internet you will find a lot of stuff with her 'dots'-trademark.
Location: Outside the Matsumoto City Museum of Art (松本市美術館), Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan, hometown of Yayoi Kusama.
The official website of Yayoi Kusama is yayoi-kusama.jp , where you can see all her artworks.
Taken @one gallery in NYC
"Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan."
Another shot of Kusama's Installation at the Botanical Gardens of NYC.
A few months ago, I watched the Yayoi Kusama documentary Infinity (on Hulu) and fell in love with this artist. I was in NYC and a fellow photographer let me know that the Botanical Gardens actually had an exhibit of hers embedded within their grounds called Cosmic Nature and I was super excited. Here's one of those pieces (Kusama is in her 90s and still creating art and she seems especially fond of pumpkins) I photographed recently on my trip to NYC.
If you live in NYC, I highly recommend visiting the New York Botanical Gardens and seeing this exhibit yourself. You can purchase tickets here:
www.nybg.org/event/kusama/plan-your-visit/
If you don't live in NYC but would like to watch the documentary, here's information about that:
For Kusama's website:
yayoi-kusama.jp/e/information/
**All photos are copyrighted**
Contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is one of the most popular artists in the world, drawing millions to experience her immersive installations.
Exclusively at NYBG, Kusama reveals her lifelong fascination with the natural world, beginning with her childhood spent in the greenhouses and fields of her family’s seed nursery. Her artistic concepts of obliteration, infinity, and eternity are inspired by her intimate engagement with the colors, patterns, and life cycles of plants and flowers.
"Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan.[1]
A major theme in artist Yayoi Kusama's work are polka dots and pumpkins. This large group is amazing. David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Kanade Hamawaki hat hier mit ihrem Team eine wunderbare Instalation für den Rundgang in der Akademie geschaffen ... sie fertigten etwa 50x30cm große weiße Blätter an, die mit gleichgroßen schwarzumrandeten Ringen bedruckt sind, die die Besucher, nach ihrem Gusto, rot ausmalen durften ... danach wurden die Blätter aufgehängt ...
wirkt, wie eine Reminiszenz an Yayoi Kusama ;-) ...
Contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is one of the most popular artists in the world, drawing millions to experience her immersive installations.
Exclusively at NYBG, Kusama reveals her lifelong fascination with the natural world, beginning with her childhood spent in the greenhouses and fields of her family’s seed nursery. Her artistic concepts of obliteration, infinity, and eternity are inspired by her intimate engagement with the colors, patterns, and life cycles of plants and flowers.
"Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan.[1]
A few months ago, I watched the Yayoi Kusama documentary Infinity (on Hulu) and fell in love with this artist. I was in NYC and a fellow photographer let me know that the Botanical Gardens actually had an exhibit of hers embedded within their grounds called Cosmic Nature and I was super excited. Here's one of those pieces (Kusama is in her 90s and still creating art and she seems especially fond of pumpkins) I photographed recently on my trip to NYC.
If you live in NYC, I highly recommend visiting the New York Botanical Gardens and seeing this exhibit yourself. You can purchase tickets here:
www.nybg.org/event/kusama/plan-your-visit/
If you don't live in NYC but would like to watch the documentary, here's information about that:
For Kusama's website:
yayoi-kusama.jp/e/information/
**All photos are copyrighted**
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).
""Yayoi Kusama, 草間 彌生 (1929) is a female Japanese artist and writer.
Her artworks are enormously famous and inspire numbers of artists worldwide.
Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, soft sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition, and pattern.
A precursor of the pop art, minimalist and feminist art movements, Yayoi Kusama influenced her contemporaries such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and George Segal and exhibited works alongside the likes of them.""
Info - WiKi
At the entrance of the Matsumoto City Museum of Art (松本市美術館), Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan is one of her famous sculptures, called "The Visionary Flowers" displayed.
You see it a little bit of the sculpture on the background. For full view, just click on the link above ;-))
Iba a decir que la obra está expuesta en el Guggenheim de Bilbao, pero lo de expuesta se queda corto. En realidad se trata de una inmersión en la creación de Yayoi Kusama, "Sala de espejos del infinito – Deseo de felicidad para los seres humanos desde más allá del universo".
Desde una sala totalmente a oscuras se accede a una explosión de luz y color que te rodea y hace que te sientas parte indivisible de la obra.
Algo de luz y color para saludaros :)
One of the 'Polka Dots' covering the Matsumoto City Museum of Art (松本市美術館), Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan, hometown of Yayoi Kusama.
Yayoi Kusama’s artworks are motifs of her childhood, in which she experienced hallucinations of her surroundings covered in repetitive, dotted patterns.
It is impossible to separate Yayoi Kusama’s art from her mental health. Kusama described her dots as something that helps wipe out her anxieties through repetition.
"""Part of an interview:
Grady Turner: "You say your art is an expression of your mental illness. How so?"
Yayoi Kusama: "My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my works in pastels are the products of obsessional neurosis and are therefore inextricably connected to my disease. I create pieces even when I don’t see hallucinations, though."
info - culture.affinitymagazine.us/we-explain-why-yayoi-kusama-i...
The official website of Yayoi Kusama is yayoi-kusama.jp , where you can see all her artworks.
From one of Yayoi Kusama's Infinity rooms; exhibition at Gropius Bau in Berlin, Germany.
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The New York City Louis Vuitton store on 5th Ave and 57th St getting ready for the launch of it's latest collaboration with Yayoi Kusama. Four collections including Painted Dots, Metal Dots, Infinity Dots and Psychedelic Flowers will be available in 2023. Just in case you need a new pocketbook. A bit of Selective Color (SC) applied during processing.
A small infinity display of Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama's iconic spotted pumpkins at the New York Botanical Garden. The pumpkins are in a dark room glass box that is mirrored on the top and bottom and part of the sides, creating an infinity mirror effect. They gradually light until all are lit, and then go dark, a process that is repeated over and over. Part of this year's Cosmic Nature installation in the garden. The Bronx, NYC -- April 9, 2021
The actual title of this piece is "Pumpkins Screaming Of Love
Beyond Infinity."
#Flickr21Challenge #dots
Comme leur nom l’indique, les Tulipes de Shangri-La sont des fleurs artificielles géantes en forme de tulipes de 8 mètres de hauteur. La réalisation de l’œuvre a été confiée à la peintre contemporaine et sculptrice japonaise Yayoi Kusama. Grande passionnée des pois et pacifiste dans l’âme, elle est très connue dans le domaine artistique.
As their name suggests, Shangri-La Tulips are giant artificial flowers in the shape of tulips 8 meters high. The realization of the work was entrusted to the contemporary painter and Japanese sculptor Yayoi Kusama. A great lover of peas and a pacifist at heart, she is very well known in the artistic field.
I Have to Stay Alive So I can...
Help more kids
Write more stream of consciousness poems
Draw and paint my epic painting of a black cloud
Photograph more macro mushrooms
See the next Jim Jarmusch film
Try more new vegan food
Learn to make my best curry yet
Howl at more full moons at the top of my lungs
Improve my skills at swimming and the pottery wheel
Visit Tashirojima and Aoshima
See a ghost
Dance dance dance
Meet more cats
See the band The Innocence Mission live
Read more experimental fiction in the bathtub with bubbles
Behold every Lee Bontecou sculpture
Finally learn to meditate for more than 5 minutes at a time.
Once I can do those things, Sayonara!
What are you living for? Why are you still here? What do you still have left to do?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cNq6DNJzRw
***From the Infinity Room of Yayoi Kusama’s at The Broad in Los Angeles**