Born in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-Ken, Japan, Yayoi Kusama became a
colorful personality in the New York art world of the 1960s and has
been described as an "outsider, eccentric, an obsessive, a femme fatale
and a nonentity"
Her paintings
reflect childhood hallucinations, and her art has been an attempt to
exorcise those demons. In the late 1950s, she began a series of Infinity Net Paintings that reflected with dots, nets and flowers her childhood affliction of suffering fr (showing 500 of 2231 characters). |
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