Monday, October 6, 2014

Polka-dotted Pumpkin Painter

With Fall upon us and Halloween closing in I got incredibly excited about this exhibition of the work of Yayoi Kusama up now in London.

Kusama is known for her polka dotted environments like this one:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/View_of_the_%22I_pray_with_all_of_my_love_for_tulips.%22_installation_at_the_Yayoi_Kusama_Special_Exhibition_at_the_Osaka_National_Museum_of_International_Art.JPG
"View of the "I pray with all of my love for tulips." installation at the Yayoi Kusama Special Exhibition at the Osaka National Museum of International Art" by Samuel Mark Thompson - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org
And I'm very happy to say that I got to see not one but TWO of her rooms when we were in Pittsburgh at the Mattress Factory.  I wrote more about that in this post.  But I love that Kusama has also brought her signature to this symbol of Fall, this season I love so much, but also she uses the pumpkin as a form of self portraiture. 

Is there more contemporary art that evokes Fall?

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