Advanced Professional Practice_Task 4: FINDING A MENTOR

Task 4: FINDING A MENTOR Take one of the companies / artists / designers / photographers who inspired you, and do further detailed research on them,Identify what work they do, why they interest you.

Yayoi Kusama

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, 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 art movements, Kusama influenced contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.

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.

She is a "obsessive artist‘. As you can see from her work, her attempt rendered is an autobiographical, in-depth psychological, sexual orientation content; creative techniques she used painting, soft sculpture, action art and installation art.

Characteristics of her works.
Her creation in the early development of its own characteristics, make good use of contrasting polka dot high saturation plus mirrors, a large number of coated surface of various objects, such as walls, floors, canvas, home appear items (and naked Assistant). She said that these visual characteristics from her hallucinations, he thinks these point formed a infinite Infinity nets, on behalf of her life.

"flowers"

The visual fruit of her mind's unrest is her prolific collection of work. Yayoi Kusama’s paintings and sculpture have a way of creating an immersible sensory experience for the viewer.

Her work id projection of her own concurring mental illness onto the viewer, so that we can truly see what she sees. Her work seeks out and identifies the of the individual  namely, lack of control. Perhaps the same lack of control Kusama experiences when her visions overcome her.

"Lingering Dreams" 1949

First word - "surreal". It felt like this painting invited me into the magnificent and unknown world of Kusama’s mind. Creepy floral "creatures" do not frighten me.