Kusama’s repeated deployment of the shape explored all these techniques and effects, the impact of her work building up with the repetition of the dots. It can create an effect of a shining sun or a flickering, star-filled night sky. It can in-fill a shape or grid, resolving into an image as the viewer moves away and refocuses their eye.
In some deployments, it’s an optical effect to create the sense of light shimmering or moving across the canvas. This visual immediacy and mastery of color explains how a reclusive, 89-year-old Japanese woman, who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric institution since 1977, is habitually referred to as the most Instagrammable artist in the world.įor such a simple symbol – literally, ‘something a child could do’ – the dot has a remarkably powerful, adaptable visual quality. While her work echoes with visual elements found in traditional Aboriginal painting, French impressionism or op-art, the images that Kusama produces are immediately recognisable as hers - and hers alone. Perhaps more than any living artist, she has mastered the assembly of complex, multi-layered images from tiny individual points of color.
Whether on pumpkins, skateboards, clothing or her body, in clean print-quality shapes, blurred ink spots or closely multiplied patterns. Throughout her career, Yayoi Kusama has built work from the arrangement and collection of coloured dots.
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