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YAYOI KUSAMA Painting
Painting, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 8.7 W x 11.8 H x 0.8 D in
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About The Artwork
Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生 Kusama Yayoi, born March 22, 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her 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. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan. Raised in Matsumoto, Kusama trained at the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts in a traditional Japanese painting style called nihonga. Kusama was inspired, however, by American Abstract Impressionism. She moved to New York City in 1958 and was a part of the New York avant-garde scene throughout the 1960s, especially in the pop-art movement. Embracing the rise of the hippie counterculture of the late 1960s, she came to public attention when she organized a series of happenings in which naked participants were painted with brightly colored polka dots. Since the 1970s, Kusama has continued to create art, most notably installations in various museums around the world.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:8.7 W x 11.8 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Brown
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Having no formal training or necessity to paint or draw as part of a career, my main drive and desire to draw is derived from a long lived personal fascination with people's faces and all they betray. One's face and expression always tells a story and the paintings are a snapshot into someone's life and a moment of transition or a key experience and life defining moment for that person. As a painter I am solely drawn to the face and care not for accuracy, form or detail, mainly interested in the light and how that works and illuminates. Having worked with oils, acrylics and brushwork, as are a few larger exhibits on show, my main technique is to build the portrait with a black marker pen to first boldly draw the face using outline, shading, cross hatching and traditional pencil and pen techniques as this can transfer an idea more effectively than a paintbrush. This establishes a strong starting point. I then paint to embellish and add colour and depth applied with brush, sponge, finger and a range of 'smearing' methods. Overall this produces a pleasing effect, utlilizes any skills in the right proportion and makes for a speedy process to keep things flowing and interesting to myself as I go through the creative journey and, with the best intentions, interesting to the observer afterwards.
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