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Created:June 28, 2002
Latest Update: June 28, 2002
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Some of Yayoi Kusama's Art Work: Modernism in the 1950's and 1960's

Essay Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individaul Authors, May 2002.
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Love Forever, Yayoi Kusama. Review the slideshow on the MOMA site.

Photo 1: Yayoi as a seven-year-old.

"Yayoi Kusama was born in Matsumoto City, Japan in 1929. In 1948, she left her hometown for Kyoto where she attended the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts for a year and a half. Early in childhood, Kusama began exhibiting signs of the mental illness that would govern her life. Until she was ten, visions of repetitive and proliferating dots, nets, and flowers threatened to overtake her. Kusama found that by recreating these images, she was able to control her visions. These early hallucinations remain sources of inspiration for the artist even today."

Discussions to follow on objectivity, reality and mental illness. And art, of course. jeanne

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