Yellow Dots B

Yayoi Kusama, considered one of the precursors of Pop Art, works with a great variety of expressive media such as painting, collage, sculpture, performance and installation. From the outset of her career, the Japanese artist has covered every surface – canvases, walls, floors, everyday objects but also the nude bodies of performers – with dots of various dimensions. Her “infinity nets” are perhaps the most-well known characteristic of her works and also feature in Yellow Dots B. “The red, green and yellow dots”, writes Kusama, “ may represent the earth, the sun or the moon… I paint dots on the bodies of people and with these dots they can annul themselves and return to the nature of the universe." The artist’s obsession with dots, along with floral motifs, derives from the hallucinatory visions she suffered during adolescence.