Yayoi Kusama, nicknamed "Queen of Polka Dots" and "Strange Mother-in-law", is a Japanese contemporary artist. She is good at using "polka dots" as symbolic expression, expressing space with infinite extension, and expressing colors with bright and intense colors, so she is known as an avant-garde artist, sculptor, painter and ** home, and is a contemporary female artist of Japan's "national treasure", and has been selected as one of the "Top 100 Important Artists in the World".
Kusama's family of origin was more morbid, which made her almost nervous. After the age of 10, she suffered from a mental disorder of hearing and hearing, and the world she saw was covered with polka dots. This led her to create a large number of surrealist works based on mirrors, polka dots, creature antennae and tips. In 1951, his painting "Wandering Dream" was selected for the 2nd Japan Creation Award. In 1957, at the age of 28, Yayoi Kusama held a solo exhibition in the United States, and in 1959, she exhibited five "infinite net" paintings for the first time, which began her avant-garde art creation. In 1966, Kusama's famous work "Infinite Love" became the most sensational visual psychedelic work of the time. In 1968, he created the short film "Destroy Yourself" (Kusama Destroy Yourself), which won the Silver Medal at the 4th International Short Film Awards in Belgium and the 2nd Joint Tree Film Festival in Japan.
In the fifties and sixties of the 20th century, during the heyday of American pop art, Kusama Yayoi was a Japanese woman, and her name was written into the history of Western pop art. At the same time, it also began to have the title of "avant-garde queen" because of its bold artistic expression. In 1973, Kusama returned to Japan. Four years later, she was admitted to a psychiatric sanatorium, where she published more than a dozen semi-autobiographical books, while continuing to create paintings, sculptures, and installations. In 1983, her ** "Christopher Male Prostitution Cave" (Male Prostitution Cave) won the 10th Japanese Wild Age New Artist Literature Award. In 1993, Kusama represented Japan at the Venice Biennale, and his artistic career reached another peak.
In 2003, he was awarded the Chevalier del of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture'ordredesartsetdeslettres）。In 2014, his work "White No28" sold for $7.1 millionIn December 2020, the Hurun Research Institute released the "2020 Shanghai National Auction Hurun Global Art List", and Kusama ranked 7th.