Yayoi Kusama

Friends Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist, died aged 97 in August 2026. Kusama emerged as part of the pop art movement - and was among a select group of artists whose work became truly popular with a mass audience, attracting crowds to exhibitions from Tokyo to New York and London. Early life and art By her own account, Kusama began painting as a child, at about the time she began experiencing hallucinations that often involved fields of dots. Those hallucinations and the theme of dots would continue to inform her art throughout her career. She had little formal training, studying art only briefly (1948–49) at the Kyoto City Specialist School of Arts. Family conflict and the desire to become an artist drove her to move in 1957 to the United States, where she settled in New York City. Before leaving Japan, she destroyed many of her early paintings. M G Warrier A Yayoi Kusama | Biography, Art, Infinity Mirror Room, Pumpkin, & Facts | Britannica https://share.google/1AtleGLEOd9ziaMdC B In pictures : The dotty world of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama https://share.google/03ELbInViHsvRuxqo C Bonus : A Poem https://share.google/3lL9yy9VJmZOSj9gq Excerpts : "I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand — How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep — while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?"