Pumpkins By Yayoi Kusama
Avant-garde Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama was an influential figure in the postwar New York art scene, staging provocative happenings and exhibiting works such as her “Infinity Nets”, hallucinatory paintings of loops and dots (and physical representations of the idea of infinity). Narcissus Garden, an installation of hundreds of mirrored balls, earned Kusama notoriety at the 1966 Venice Biennale, where she attempted to sell the individual spheres to passersby. Kusama counted Donald Judd and Eva Hesse among her close friends, and is often considered an influence on Andy Warhol and a precursor to Pop art. Since her return to Japan in the 1970s, Kusama’s work has continued to appeal to the imagination and the senses, including dizzying walk-in installations, public sculptures, and the “Dots Obsessions” paintings.
About the Artist:
Artist Yayoi Kusama was born in Matsumoto City, Japan in 1929. She studied Nihongapainting, a rigorous formal style developed during the Meiji period (1868–1912) to deflect the wholesale influence of Western art through the revitalization of the traditions of Japanese painting and their synthesis with aspects of Western art. Attracted by the experimental promise of the postwar international art scene, Kusama moved to New York City in 1958.
Artwork

Pumpkin Etching by Yayoi Kusama
Pumpkin Etching by Yayoi Kusama

Napping Pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama
Napping Pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama

Pumpkin 2000 By Yayoi Kusama
Pumpkin 2000 By Yayoi Kusama

Red Pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama
Red Pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama

Pumpkin YB-D by Yayoi Kusama
Pumpkin YB-D by Yayoi Kusama

Pumpkin II from Eternal Love by Yayoi Kusama
Pumpkin II from Eternal Love by Yayoi Kusama

Pumpkin PP by Yayoi Kusama
Pumpkin PP by Yayoi Kusama

Pumpkin, 1991 by Yayoi Kusama
Pumpkin, 1991 by Yayoi Kusama

Untitled, 1985 by Yayoi Kusama
Untitled, 1985 by Yayoi Kusama

A Pumpkin 2000 (Yellow) By Yayoi Kusama
A Pumpkin 2000 (Yellow) By Yayoi Kusama

A Pumpkin GB-D By Yayoi Kusama
A Pumpkin GB-D By Yayoi Kusama

Pumpkin 2 By Yayoi Kusama
Pumpkin 2 By Yayoi Kusama

A Pumpkin RT By Yayoi Kusama
A Pumpkin RT By Yayoi Kusama

Pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama
Pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama
