Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist known for her painting, drawing, sculpture, installation art, and performance art, as well as many other arts. She studied the traditional Japanese art of Nihonga but found she preferred the European and American avant-garde art style instead. Her signature polka dots dominate much of her artwork. She is quoted as saying “Polka dots are a way to infinity”. She has been called “the world’s most successful living artist” and at age 96, she still produces artwork.
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Shares a story of contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama, who day and night painted hundreds of dots onto large canvases, until the dots soon came off her pictures and ended up on her dresses, tables, and walls.
Inviting kids to pick up their pencils and collect their collage materials, this fact-filled activity book showcases 25 of the world’s best-known artists who provide inspiration for all kinds of creative crafts.
Yayoi Kusama’s groundbreaking work has mesmerized audiences since her first exhibitions in New York in the 1960s. Known for working in a broad range of media–including painting, performance, sculpture, and installation–in recent decades she has risen to worldwide fame through the explosive popularity of her mesmerizing infinity mirror rooms and vibrant sculptural installations.
Written by a curator at The Museum of Modern Art, this book features reproductions by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and tells the story of her life and artistic vision to cover the world with dots.
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