Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生) born 22 March 1929 (that makes her 83 years old this year). Began creating art since a young age in Japan; moved to New York in 1957; association with the pop movement and influenced by the abstract expressionist movement. Returned to Japan in 1973. Well known for her astounding collab with Louis Vuitton, named “infinitely kusama” which will make its debut in June 2012. Has an obsession with spots and polka-dots.
Since childhood, Kusama has experienced hallucinations and severe obsessive thoughts, those of which have often been of suicidal nature. What really fascinates me about Kusama’s work is that, from 1977 and after, Kusama voluntarily admitted into and now lives in a psychiatric institution. But actually, this is the source of her inspirations - the majority of her most successful works are marked with themes of obsessiveness and desire to escape from psychological trauma.
The irony of Kusama creating pieces expressing her yearning of escape from psychological ordeals while inside, pretty much, the core of psychological mess, is absolutely brilliant. I love the way she includes snippets of her present life and uses it in her art; it’s as if she were dictating stories, making a map of her life, or perhaps just venting a lot of emotion and thoughts through colours and patterns. And perhaps, there’s an even darker undercurrent than what meets the eye.
Kusama’s work is currently being displayed at the Tate Modern.
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It’s even funnier as a gif ;)
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I just screamed.
And got shouted at because my parents thought that I was in pain.
Heartbreaking Tearjerker of the Day: In 1988, Nicholas Winton’s wife revealed to the BBC his long-kept secret: He’d saved 669 children from the Nazis at the dawn of World War II through his organization of the Czech Kindertransport. (This clip is from a BBC program that honored the “British Schindler” by inviting some 80 of the children he saved to surprise him in the audience.) In all, more than 5,000 people owe their lives to Winton.
In the more than two decades since the media got wind of his humanitarian exploits, Winton has been knighted, had a minor planet named after him, been commemorated by two statues — one each in Prague and London — and been the subject of three films and a play.
Winton still wears a ring given to him by some of the children he saved. It is inscribed with a line from the Talmud, the book of Jewish law: “Save one life, save the world.” He celebrates his 103rd birthday this week.
[reddit]
Heartbreaking Tearjerker of the Day: In 1988, Nicholas Winton’s wife revealed to the BBC his long-kept secret: He’d saved 669 children from the Nazis at the dawn of World War II through his organization of the Czech Kindertransport. (This clip is from a BBC program that honored the “British Schindler” by inviting some 80 of the children he saved to surprise him in the audience.) In all, more than 5,000 people owe their lives to Winton.
In the more than two decades since the media got wind of his humanitarian exploits, Winton has been knighted, had a minor planet named after him, been commemorated by two statues — one each in Prague and London — and been the subject of three films and a play.
Winton still wears a ring given to him by some of the children he saved. It is inscribed with a line from the Talmud, the book of Jewish law: “Save one life, save the world.” He celebrates his 103rd birthday this week.
[reddit]
