Yayoi Kusama is one of the well known japanese artists of our century. Her works brought new understanding to installation art, they inspired people all over the world. Her popularity busted during her stay in New York from 1957 till 1972. She knew many famous artists of that period like Andy Warhol, Joseph Cornell. Her installations caused lots of discussions among artists and critics. But the questions that interest us today is where Kusama’s inspiration came from, what were her inspirations and influences. In order to understand what influenced Yayoi Kusama’s art we need to look at her past. First we need to come back to her childhood, and her thoughts about it. In work by Alexandra Munroe it is stated that Yayoi had difficult childhood (12-13). Her mother was very abusive towards …show more content…
Mother was the one who pulled the whole family. Also, Yayoi’s siblings were against her doing art, they strongly suppressed it, by throwing away her art supplies, and tearing apart her works. That traumatised Kusama’s childhood, and could probably be the start of her psychological problems. Being upressed, unrespected in her own family made Kusama’s self esteem low, but also moved her more into doing art. Throughout her childhood years she continued to draw, it was her way to escape from abusive reality. Sufferings were one source of inspiration for the girl. It made her took the art supplies and through her emotions to the paper. This was a start of her long artistic journey. Since the early childhood Yayoi was suffering from hallucinations, she saw dots and nets all over the places, which drove her more into putting them to art.