Yayoi kusama biography of mahatma
After studying Nihonga, traditional Japanese painting, Yayoi Kusama left Japan in the mids for the United States, where she rapidly established herself.!
From the bestselling biography series Little People, BIG DREAMS, discover the life of Yayoi Kusama, the trailblazing artist.
Summary of Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama's life is a poignant testament to the healing power of art as well as a study in human resilience. Plagued by mental illness as a child, and thoroughly abused by a callous mother, the young artist persevered by using her hallucinations and personal obsessions as fodder for prolific artistic output in various disciplines.
This has informed a lifelong commitment to creativity at all costs despite the artist's birth into a traditional, female-effacing Japanese culture and her career's coming of age in the male-dominated New York art scene. Today, Kusama reigns as one of the most unique and famous contemporary female artists, operating from her self-imposed home in a mental hospital.
Accomplishments
- When Kusama began to see hallucinations as a child, her way of coping with the bizarre phenomena was to paint what she saw.
She says that art became her way to express her mental disease, as most notably is seen in her Infinity Net paintings based