An Analysis Of The Artistic Creation Path Yayoi Kusama’s

Yayoi Kusama is regarded as a classic living artist with her dot art in Japan.The avant-garde and classic Japanese female artist.Yayoi Kusama was born to a wealthy family which owned seed business for a hundred year in Matsumoto in 1929. Although her family was rich, Kusama did not hava a happy childhood. Young though she is, Kusama longed to pursue the wider world out of Japan, the old-fashioned and conservative country.In 1957, she began to explore avant-garde art in United States. She followed her dreams and when she succeeded, she came back and chose a closed simple life. Those unhappy childhood days became her source of inspiration.dot and her psychotic symptoms like artists, become the most authentic existence. She will betough fighting all into a fine art, her avant-garde and unique creative life, let the art has been far beyond the self art therapy field, she constantly self refresh presence, also left a gorgeous track for the art history of the world.However, for Kusama, the pattern which was arranged evenly by dots in the same size and color at a certain distance on her canvas would not been arranged monotonously and neatly, they were dyed with high saturation and purity colors. and formed incredibly to stress eruptible visual impact. As if they were vibrant life instead of static things. The contrast jumping dot pattern had such strong sense of dizziness at first glance that addicted people could not bear to look away, even hug with those bright colors.Yayoi Kusama is an top artist who possesses talents in many aspects. Her talent in art and literature show us a vivid, solid and creative artist image who sticks to be better in her old age. She had experienced important period of development and stages of modern Western art history for her avant-garde and long art career. For example, the late Abstract Expressionism, Feminism peak, Hippie fashion, Surrealism, Pop art and so on. The combination of Kusama’s works of different periods showed us a unique style. The crazy spirit of pursing art, the fortitude beyond the obsession and the power of perseverance are not only burst from her works, but also tell us the great presence for her legendary maverick artistic life.Artistic creation is an independent, pure, special aesthetic creation instead of replicating the daily life. Therefore, this thesis attempts to explore Yayoi Kusama’s art creations track in the following aspects: the creative backgrounds, the creative experiences(the creative activities), the art features and retrospective exhibitions of art works.