Read about a popular modern artist and answer the questions below.
"I am just another dot in the world." Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based on conceptual art and shows some features of minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical and psychological content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan.
Kusama was raised in Matsumoto and trained at the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts in a traditional Japanese painting style called nihonga. Kusama was inspired, however, by American Abstract Impressionism. She moved to New York City in 1958 and was a part of the New York avant-garde scene throughout the 1960s, especially in the pop-art movement. Since the 1960s, when she entered the New York art scene, the Japanese artist has been an outsider, operating from her own visual universe of infinity nets and polka dots.
Embracing the rise of the hippie counterculture of the late 1960s, she came to public attention when she organised a series of happenings in which participants were painted with brightly coloured polka dots. Kusama's art encompasses a broad spectrum of media, including film, painting, and performance. Her greatest contribution to art, however, is her immersive and energetic installations and sculptures.
Write one number in each gap.
Kusama creates her works in...
Traditional Japanese style.
Her own unique style.
Hippie style.
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What is the most important element in Kusama's works?
A dot.
A line.
A zig-zag.
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What is Kusama most famous for?
For selling the most expensive painting at an auction.
For including psychological motives in her artworks.
For being one of the most influential Japanese artists.
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