The Sublime Nature of Yayoi Kusama's Artwork in the Contemporary World

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The Sublime Nature of Yayoi Kusamas Artwork in the Contemporary World
With the desire to escape her obsessive-compulsive neurosis condition, Yayoi Kusama releases her hallucinations through her outstanding art pieces. The unique style of displaying her art has made her a noteworthy artist in contemporary art. One steps into another world that is more than an exhibition but of infinite possibilities when looking at her canvasses (such as the Infinity Net), walking through her installations (such as Infinity Mirror Rooms), or witnessing her performance. Her art style is a concentration of polka dots, infinity nets, mirror displays, pumpkins, and body art. The artist aims to eliminate the world's happenings with a single dot. Kusama senses that the physical world is overtaken by endlessly repeated forms, which she represents in her work using polka dots. For Instance, infinity mirror rooms created a multiplying illusion in the visitor's mind, setting a three-dimensional scene of the infinite space in the subconscious mind. This write-up will explore how Kusama's artwork fits in her career, how the artwork diverges from the characteristic of its moments and the prevailing critics of scholars who have written her work.[Ferrell, Susanna S. "Pattern and disorder: Anxiety and the art of Yayoi Kusama." (2015).]
How Kusama Art Work Fit/Diverges from the Career of Its Artist or Work that is Characteristic of its Moment
Many artists say their artwork and lives are closely linked. This reality is actual for Yayoi Kusama, whose artistic work of polka dots and infinity net motifs is an outward expression of a single-minded performance that has lasted for decades. Her artwork shows attributes of minimalism, pop art, and feminism. She brings the themes to life using her psychedelic polka dot styles. Kusama's artwork reflects the contemporary art movement through pop art, whereby contemporary art is a big deal in the 21st century. Richard Meyer outlines that contemporary art is not simply a function of the current movement or immediate past but also a relationship between the volatile forces of history and the ever-shifting present. Through her artwork, Kusama is an artist with character and one of the most influential artists in New York.[Fitzgerald, Michael. "Maximising minimalism." Art Monthly Australasia 314 (2019): 50-55.] [Gombrich, Ernst Hans. "Image and word in twentieth-century art." Word & image 1, no. 3 (1985): 213-241.]
The artist studied Nihonga at the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts, a traditional Japanese painting form that emerged in the Meiji period. She later relocated to New York, where she was inspired by the rise of abstract expressionism after several solo exhibitions in Japan. After arriving in New York, she began a series of infinity nets that incorporated soft sculptures, paintings, films, and installations. The nets were inspired by the artist's hallucinations of overcoming endless netting. The infinity nets harmonized with the work of other emerging pop and minimal art movements. European groups, such as the Zero, brought her to the attention of the New York avant-garde, which later won Donald Judd’s recognition. In the 1960s...