I know this was meant for children, but this was a wonderful summary of the stages of her art/life and a great introduction to her. I really really liked this.
Thank you Windy. I think a lot of adults love the videos as an introduction to art. They are easy to understand and doesn't make you feel stupid or out of the loop if you don't know a specific concept. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you. I loved both the look and sound of this video. What a wonderful story of an amazing little girl who knew how to transform her suffering into something positive.
Her story and talent touches my heart in ways I can’t fully and adequately express. It’s a story of beauty, whimsy, triumph, determination, courage, and just about everything I can admire.
Thank you for sharing Yayoi's beautiful life. I saw her documentary and inspired by my own creativity. May we all remember that we are all artists from the get go. :)
Thanks for the crash course, Yayoi Kusama is a brilliant artist! I find it a bit darkly humorous with the playful music combined with the messed up content
I learned about her in my school she was very peculiar to me so I looked up documentarys about her and she's Been threw so much and she is truly a talent artist.
@@LillianGrayArt I loved every word of this story; especially how your work is created. Absolutely magnificant. Hope one day I get a chance to see it with my own eyes one day. God bless your wonderfully gifted hands forever. Amen.
This is brilliant, Lilian, I am sharing this with my senior art student here in Ajijic, Mexico. They need to get back the child within. I watched her history on another one or two on RU-vid, but your illustrations and storyline are perfect. Gracias.
Thank you so much, Robina, this means so much to me. May they learn amply! We also have videos on Ai Weiwei and Shepard Fairey. And then lots on South African Artists
Wow, this is an incredible video! This was originally just for me to better understand Kusama for a project, but I got more and more interested in the story and just couldnt stop watching. Please continue to create amazing content! I loved this!
Wow thank you for the information on her. I respect her somuch I wish to borrow her idea of the infinity mirrored room for my business... GOD bless her.
Nossa, é uma história triste e fantástica ao mesmo tempo. Ela vive presa em seu mundo, e pra ao expressar sua prisão é uma forma de tentar se comunicar com o mundo externo.
I discuss this right at the end of the video: Why does Kusama create art? Now let’s discuss the most important of all - the why. What is the purpose of Kusama’s art and what is the meaning behind all these dots? If we think about it on a deeper level we are surrounded by dots: the sun is a dot, the moon is a dot, even the earth the planet that we live on is a dot. What is remarkable to me is that the country that Kusama is from Japan, even the flag, is a dot. Everything around us our entire universe is made out of dots - molecules - atoms - dots that are vibrating dots that are infinite. We are all just a collection of dots. Here is a quote from Kusama about the meaning of her art “Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos polka dots are a way to infinity when we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become a part of the unity of our environment” Yayoi Kusama
I love that it is universal. Looks like a lot of fun on the surface but once you dig deeper there is a story of overcoming and dealing with Mental Health.
I think life is filled with good and bad and there is always a balance. Kids need to be exposed to both. A lot of famous artists have tragic stories (Frida, Van Gogh, Chagall, Tretchikoff) and kids actually deal with it really well. They latch on to the power of overcoming. I've been teaching art history to kids of all ages for almost 6 years now and its been an awesome experience. They ask the the most amazing questions and we end up in discussions on what makes a good person and how do we know what is right and wrong.
Yes well these video as meant to be School Appropriate so naturally I have to leave out certain aspects of artists lives and sensor sexual content etc.
The information contained in this video is very insightful. However, the overly dramatic delivery and childlike illustrations take much away from what would otherwise be a great video. Kusama did not have hallucinations she had visions. The pejorative term "hallucination" used throughout this video is a disservice to those who are aware of realities beyond the 3D mainstream consensus "reality" considered "normal" on planet earth.
I also thought that at first. But Ive done a lot of research about it. Art is all about starting a dialogue not shutting options out. Just Google it for a bit and see what you find.
@@LillianGrayArt I'm an artist myself and there are trends in art in every era, an artistic zeitgeist if you will. To say that any one artist is responsible for an entire movement, with the possible exception of Picasso, is poor scholarship. Putting that in a video no less doesn't help the reputations of Yayoi Kusama or yourself. I'm well aware that politics has history being written all over again for the women and minorities who were left out in the past. Kusama's no Warhol and I don't need to google that.
She was copied by her male peers though, and you don't need to be an artist to know that. Artspace magazine and the BBC news both wrote articles about that ^^
@@olivia243 Bullshit, she's no Warhol, and you don't need to an artist to know that! ...btw, I do happen to like her exhibitions, but she's redundant and not what you'd call a brilliant painter.