Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist known for her dot paintings and installations. She was born in 1929 and began creating art as a child, though her mother discouraged it. Kusama suffers from hallucinations that influenced her artwork, including flashes of light and flowers that spoke to her. In the 1950s, she moved to New York to pursue her career and created large-scale "Infinity Net" paintings using dots inspired by her visions. Kusama is most famous for her dot paintings and pumpkin sculptures, as well as interactive rooms covered in dots that viewers can touch and walk through.

1. Yayoi
Kusama,
Dot Artist

2. Her Life
● Yayoi was born in Japan in
1929.
● She started creating art as
a young girl but was
discouraged by her
mother.
● She was born with a
mental illness that caused
her to hallucinate, which
means she saw things that
weren't there. She would
see flashes of light, flowers
that spoke to her, auras
and dense fields of dots.

3. Her
Work
● In the 1950s Yayoi moved to
New York City to start her
art career.
● Yayoi used her
hallucinations as
inspirations for her art.
● She created large scale
artworks of dots, a series she
entitled, “Infinity Nets”.
● She is most famous for her
dots, pumpkin sculptures
and interactive rooms that
can be touched and walked
through.
● Yayoi Kusama put her
creativity in other things
music, design, writing and
fashion.

4. Fun Yayoi Kusama Videos

5. Many artist use the same subject in their artwork. The subject of an artwork can
compared to the Main Idea of a story. Just like Yayoi with her dots, Andy Warhol
with his celebrity portraits and Georgia O'keeffe with her flowers, These were all
common subjects in their paintings. Sometimes many paintings of the same
subject can be called a series or collection like Yayoi’s “Infinity Nets”
If you were an artist what would be the subject of your artworks?
Are you fascinated by anything?
Do you enjoy drawing the same object over and over again?
What would be the title of your Series?
Respond on Schoology with a typed response or
record yourself speaking. You can also share any
artwork you’ve created with the same subjects.