Infinity Mirror Rooms by Yayoi Kusama

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The Infinity Mirror Rooms
of Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama (Kusama Yayoi, 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, soft sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition, and pattern. A precursor of the pop art, minimalist and feminist movements, Kusama influenced her contemporaries such as Warhol, Oldenburg and Segal and exhibited works alongside them.

In 1957, she moved to the United States, settling down in New York City where she produced a series of paintings influenced by the abstract expressionists movement. Switching to sculpture and installation as her primary media, Kusama became a fixture of the New York avant-garde during the early 1960s where she became associated with the pop art movement. Embracing the rise of the hippie counterculture  of the late 1960s, Kusama came to public attention when she organized a series of happenings in which naked participants were painted with brightly colored polka dots. Although largely forgotten after departing the New York art scene in the early 1970s, Kusama is now acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, and an important voice of the avant-garde.

Kusama's work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. Kusama is also a published novelist and poet, and has created notable work in film and fashion design. Major retrospectives of her work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1998, the Whitney Museum in 2012, and Tate Modern in 2012. In 2006, she received a Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2008, Christie's New York sold a work by her for $5.1 million, then a record for a living female artist. She has been named one of the Top 10 Living Artists.

Her Infinity Mirror Rooms are some of her most enjoyed art, where the participants walk one at a time into the enclosed environment of mirrors and the objects she has place in the room with the viewer.

(Text source, wikipedia. Photo source, various online and museum sites.)

Until later, 

Jack

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