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Here, is YAYOI KUSAMA.
An artist extremely important to Laura Notari. Yayoi and her polka dots that Laura Notari is in love with is a great source of inspiration for her.
Below you will find a little bit of her story…
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who was born in 1927 to an upper middle class family who sent her to art school at a very young age. She learned the traditional painting of her ancestry, but became bored with the technique. She became interested in the work European and American painters were doing and decided to move to New York in 1957. She started with painting, but soon moved to sculpture and installations pieces, often sharing gallery exhibit space with Andy Warhol. In fact, many in the art world acknowledged Kusama’s influence on his work before she moved back to Japan in 1973. She opened an art gallery but found the conservative lifestyle in Japan too mentally draining and admitted herself to a mental hospital in Shinjuku, Tokyo, where she still lives today. Her work encompassed pop art, minimalism and feminist art movements. She has exhibited all over the world and is known for her dotted, large landscapes. Her studio is a short distance from the hospital and she works there almost daily.