Images: Japanese artist Kusama turns polka dots into avant garde art
Japan’s avant garde artist Yayoi Kusama is seen as an important figure in pop art. Images from her recent exhibition in Germany and other past works.
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Visitors adhere circular stickers in a room installation at the exhibition "Dot.Systems - from Pointillism to Pixel" by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at the Wilhelm-Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany. AP
Visitors adhere circular stickers in a room installation at the exhibition "Dot.Systems - from Pointillism to Pixel" by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at the Wilhelm-Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany. AP
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama sits by her 1998 Pumpkin, a collection of Iwami Art Museum, Shimane, Japan, in an installation at Matsumoto City Museum of Art in Matsumoto. AP
In this August 2012, photo, Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama speaks during an interview at her studio, filled with wall-sized paintings throbbing with her repetitive dots, in Tokyo. AP