The Schizophrenic Artist #2: Yayoi Kusama

Consider this the second in a series of three posts about pretty well-known things. I don't see why not, as redundancy is redundant. Overexposure does not diminish quality (well, that depends on the artist, not on the viewer), it only creates pointless backlash. This backlash is what I want to abolish when it comes to my own perception.

In fact, there is a longer story behind my choice to feature Yayoi Kusama, often called "the second most renowned female Japanese contemporary artist, after Yoko Ono". As part of my portfolio for my University admission exam, I was supposed to produce some sort of autoportrait photograph that cited a previous work. I may not be a polka dot fan but I chose to cite Yayoi because I wanted to conceal my real self in the photo (please, I'm tackling the easiest concept, I wasn't interested in useless and inexistent things like "an organic approach"/"the shapes and the body simultaneously modifying each other").

Finally, in fact, why would I dismiss her now for being famous when I actually found out about her pretty late in my explorations of contemporary art? Anyway, for this entry I tried to research her works that didn't use dots. It proved to be a laborious process with scant results, so I decided to post her works where, even if dots are present (if applicable), they do not represent the primary focus of the visual construction.