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Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama ,草間 彌生or弥生 a Japanese artist and writer. She started to paint using polka dots and nets as motifs at around age ten ,and created fantastic paintings in watercolors, pastels and oils. Yayoi travelled to the United States in 1957. Showed large paintings, soft sculptures, and environmental sculptures using mirrors and electric lights. The letter in the 1960s, she staged many happenings such as body painting festivals, fashion shows and anti-war demonstrations was for. She launched media-related activities such as film production and newspaper publication. In 1968, she starred in and produce the movie “puke's self-obliteration".

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Movies Starring Yayoi Kusama (9)

Kusama: Infinity (2018)

Now one of the world's most celebrated artists, Yayoi Kusama broke free of the rigid society in which she was raised, and overcame sexism, racism, and mental illness to bring her artistic vision to the world stage. At 88 she lives in a mental hospital and ...

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The Inexhaustible Creations of Yayoi Kusama (2017)

Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama is best known for her inexhaustible creations involving polka dots, pumpkins, and vibrant colors. Her love of design has seen her join forces with top fashion houses. ...

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Yayoi Kusama (2016)

Yayoi Kusama born March 22, 1929 is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, scat sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her them ...

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Bad Girls of Japan (2015)

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in rev ...

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Polka Dot Superstar: The Amazing World of Yayoi Kusama (2014)

This film follows Yayoi Kusama during the preparations for Tate Modern's 2012 retrospective of her work, when she undertook the mammoth physical and mental challenge of creating 100 new works for the largest-ever exhibition of her art. ...

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Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me (2008)

Captures the avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusamas creative process as she diligently works to complete her series of 50 large monochrome drawings. As her work comes to life, one can witness the essence of her art as it wells up in the conflict between life, de ...

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Tokyo Decadence (1992)

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married. ...

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Flowers (1969)

While I was staying in New York in the 1960s during the rise of the hippie movement, I filmed performances of body painting by the artist, Kusama Yayoi, together with the performers. As I wasn't satisfied with merely documenting her performance, made super ...

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Kusama's Self-Obliteration (1967)

A film exploration of the work and aesthetic concepts of Yayoi Kusama, painter, sculptor, and environmentalist, conceived in terms of an intense emotional experience with metaphysical overtones, an extension of my ultimate interest in a total fusion of the ...

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Yayoi Kusama (2016)

Yayoi Kusama born March 22, 1929 is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, scat sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her them ...

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Kusama's Self-Obliteration (1967)

A film exploration of the work and aesthetic concepts of Yayoi Kusama, painter, sculptor, and environmentalist, conceived in terms of an intense emotional experience with metaphysical overtones, an extension of my ultimate interest in a total fusion of the ...

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