Japanese cultural icon and artistic visionary
Contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama creates work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, video, and installation. Her use of recurring dots, pumpkins, and mirrors has resulted in a body of work that is formally cohesive. “With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars,” the artist has mused. “Pursuing the philosophy of the universe through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call stereotypical repetition.”