- Introduction
- Through Yayoi’s earliest works, people can understand her identity, culture and language.
- Shows identity:
- Polka dots: Mental illness- her signature motif
- Self-obliteration
- Neurosis
- Visual and Aural hallucinations
- The young Kusama dealt with her hallucinations by drawing, and by drawing repetitive patterns to “obliterate” the thoughts in her head. Even at that young age, art became a form of therapy, what she would later call “art-medicine.”
- This obsessive-compulsive repetition helped stave off neurosis.
- Sadness her Mother felt
- Womanizing father
- Often cheat on her
- sent Kusama to spy on him
- Polka dots: Mental illness- her signature motif
- Culture
- Wearing Kimono
- Oppressed
- Artists struggles with societal norms and expectations for her as a women
- Looking down on art
- primary role: wife
- Language
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- A way for her to express her self
- Express emotions she couldn’t interpret with words
- Everything pointing down
- mothers gaze
- background
- Kimono
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- Conclusion
- Through her earliest works,
- Reveal
- Identity, culture
- Yayoi Kusama repeatedly reimagines pumpkins in her work as a method of preserving and symbolically revisiting to her childhood in Japan and her struggle to become a professional artist
- This work from her early life shows the development of her work.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/how-yayoi-kusama-the-infinity-mirrors-visionary-channels-mental-illness-into-art/2017/02/15/94b5b23e-ea24-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama