In the eyes of the public, avant-garde artists are generally regarded as the "alternative" of the art world, they are different from the traditional artists who have been precipitated by history, the works of traditional artists are still more in line with the public aesthetics, but the avant-garde artists are different, because they have many behaviors that cannot be used as common sense to reason with, although they are active in various artistic activities, but they are shocking.
Perhaps the works of avant-garde artists also need to be precipitated through history, and eventually there will always be some groups that can empathize and fully understand the creator's ideas. Or maybe it's that novel works that come out of nowhere can quickly attract people's attention and then get sought after by the public. For example, the Japanese painter I want to introduce today, Yayoi Kusama, she is such an avant-garde artist.
Born in 1929, Yayoi Kusama, before she was ten years old, was a completely ordinary little girl, but at the age of ten, her mind was plagued by a large number of hallucinations, and in modern times she suffered from neurosescent audio-visual impairment, so there were auditory hallucinations and hallucinations, but she drew all these hallucinations on paper, and there was a pencil drawing she drew for her mother, which was full of small circles.
This illusion did not fade away as she grew, but intensified, and Kusama had wonderful images in her mind most of the time, which she had expressed in her painting "D.S.P.S.", just to find whether there was the same tablecloth pattern around her, which could make her gradually feel that she was dying in the universe.
Such behavior seemed very strange to Kusama Yayoi's family, and her mother would often ruin her creations, and her family would be so ashamed of her that Kusama Yayoi once fell into depression and tried to commit suicide several times. When she left Japan, her mother threw her a million yen, and the mother and daughter severed their relationship.
In 1956, Kusama Yayoi moved to New York, usa, where kusama's infinite creativity was stimulated, and in just one year, her paintings gave her the title of "Avant-garde Queen", and in the 1960s she participated in many anti-war movements, leading many students, naked, to the streets, each boy and girl painted kusama Yayoi's iconic dot pattern.
Such Kusama Yayoi is destined to move forward on her artistic path, and is destined to shine, when her works are always exhibited, it will always cause a hot discussion, full of brightly colored dots of visual psychedelic, this is the unique style of Kusama Yayoi's works, and it is also the love that Kusama Yayoi has insisted on all his life.
Her works have been exhibited in different countries and won awards, but this does not cure her soul, the unfortunate family when she was young, the frequent scolding of her mother, if it were not for the American painter Georgia O'Keeve affirming her paintings, I am afraid that Kusama Yayoi would not have been able to make up his mind to leave Japan and go to the United States.
"I traveled to the U.S. when I was 28. I think if I hadn't gone to the United States, I wouldn't be Yayoi Kusama today. Before I went to the United States, I lived in a very conservative environment, and my dream was to get out of there as soon as possible, to go out and see the world, and to keep working on it. ”
Kusama has always insisted on his dreams, and from December 15, 2013 to March 30, 2014, Kusama Yayoi 'One Of My Dreams' Asian Tour was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai. Spanning nearly a century, Yayoi Kusama is still influencing others with his own work.
After returning to Japan in 1978, she settled in a spiritual sanatorium and disappeared for decades, so long that everyone was about to forget the avant-garde female painter whose influence rivaled that of Pop art leader Andy Warhol. In 1993, she represented Japan alone at the Venice Biennale, re-emerging and establishing herself in international art.
Kusama Yayoi is such a person, so even if she does not appear for twenty years, she will still surprise the world with her paintings, the British "Times" published the results of the 200 greatest artists of the 20th century, and the 80-year-old Kusama Yayoi was impressive, thirty or forty years earlier than many new artists.
The strange mother-in-law Kusama Yayoi in the art world also had a romantic love, and the American artist Joseph Cornell met Kusama Yayoi in the 60s, and Cornell gave Kusama a very warm love and wrote letters and called every day. It was thought that the two would stay together until they were old, but the death of Joseph Cornell in 1972 gave Kusama a big blow.
As a result, Kusama Yayoi was able to read that she was alone in a spiritual sanatorium for decades, without a lover, and the love in her heart could allow her to continue to persevere. In 2018, Kusama's works sold more than 700 million yuan, winning the title of "The World's Most Noble Female Artist" for four consecutive years, and also maintaining cooperation with many brands, such as clothing, home furnishing, environmental design and other fields.