The human body is a miraculous piece of machinery. Try as they might, scientists can't always seem to understand its power — and susceptibility — to the strangest situations throughout history. What happens when a meteorite causes a mental health calamity? Or a laughing epidemic? From ye old French
Até um ano atrás, o nome de Yayoi Kusama, 85, era desconhecido do público brasileiro fora do circuito dos entendedores de arte. Mas, nos últimos meses, a "japa das bolinhas" parece ter virado febre no país. Al&
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who is well-known around the world. She has produced a variety of artworks that have been shown in many major museums around
Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist known for her extensive use of polka dots and for her Infinity Mirrored Rooms. She employed painting, sculpture, performance art, and installations in a variety of styles, including Pop art and Minimalism. Read more about her life and career.
These works fragment the familiar to abstraction and yet leave just enough information for our minds eye to recognize and fill the gaps, in the same way that we can recognize words and text when half the letters are removed or mixed around. Michael Mapes uses very familiar dutch masterpieces to base his fragmented collaged works on and recreates a kaleidoscopic interpretation using fragments of photographic prints, sequins, fake nails, costume jewelry, insect pins, gelatin capsules and glass vials amongst other things. Gathering and arranging evidence to prompt us into putting it together like detectives. "They're fairly tedious to create," he says, "so I try to bring a painter-like approach to working on them. Making changes that involve so many individual elements can be challenging, if not punishing, but my interest lies in discovering the composition of the work while making it." Michael Mapes
Aos 88 anos, a artista japonesa Yayoi Kusama, musa obsessiva pelas bolinhas, terá em breve o seu próprio museu em Tóquio, no Japão.
Anthony Storr's accessible and humane account of the art of psychotherapy has been widely read by practitioners in training and others in the helping professions, as well as many general readers. The second edition includes a thoroughly revised account of the obsessional personality, and a new chapter that draws on the author's recent work on the importance of the processes of healing that take place within the isolated individual.
In Art Studio our students are learning about the work of Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist who was a self-described “obsessional artist,” known for her extensive use of polka dots and for her infinity installations.
Over 120 kaleidoscopic works from the Japanese artist’s oeuvre feature in the first major survey of her work within South-East Asia
Invite Paul Hazelton to your home and the chances are it will be spotless by the time he leaves. Why? He likes nothing better than scooping up dust, taking it home and turning it into sculptures.
