88-year-old artist sells her paintings for millions

Today we meet you with an interesting Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who suffers from a mental disorder, but successfully sells her work at Christie’s. So in 2008 her work was sold for 5.1 million dollars. She is one of the living women artists (for 2008), who sells works for a record amount at auction.
In addition to painting, Yayoi creates soft sculptures, conducts performances and creates installations with features of feminism, minimalism and surrealism. Her hobbies are so versatile that she was able to use her idea of ​​color in areas such as pop art, fashion design, was part of a large team of filmmakers, writers and poets.
The artist was born in 1929 in the city of Matsumoto. Due to physical violence in the family, at an early age, Yayoi had obsessive ideas of suicide and mental disorder. Following the advice of a doctor who recommended her drawing, the artist begins to study painting at the School of Arts and Crafts in Kyoto.
An ambitious woman suffering from mental disorders was able to create a bright public image. In the US, she very quickly was able to win the status of the leader of the avant-garde movement.
Kusama is an extraordinary personality of his time, who demonstrates public performances using his favorite polka-dot pattern on the naked bodies of the participants, as well as collages from photos of his art objects and installations.
In 1973, the artist's health deteriorated severely, and she returned to Japan, where she began to write her surrealistic novels, stories and poems. And in 1977, at his own request, enters the hospital for the mentally ill.
The artist fills her works with autobiographical, psychological and sexual content. Seeing once in his hallucinations polka-dot pattern, which becomes the visiting card of the artist for the rest of his life.
This pattern is present in almost all the works of the artist.
 “The pea has the shape of the sun, and it is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our life, and it also looks like the moon; she is so calm. Round, soft, bright, meaningless and uninformed. The peas are starting to move ... the dots of the peas are the path to infinity, ”says Kusama.
 One of its main fundamental statements is that art should bring pleasure and delight to those around, and all anxieties should turn into wonderful “fields of infinity”.
Now we can explore the work of this artist.