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Yayoi Kusama

1929 - today

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Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2024). Yayoi Kusama is the 115th most popular painter (up from 119th in 2024), the 32nd most popular biography from Japan and the most popular Japanese Painter.

Yayoi Kusama is most famous for her polka dot paintings and sculptures. She is also known for her obsessive compulsive disorder, which she has been struggling with since she was a child.

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Among Painters

Among painters, Yayoi Kusama ranks 115 out of 2,023. Before her are Apelles, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Georges de La Tour, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Pontormo, and Pieter Brueghel the Younger. After her are Simone Martini, Andrea del Sarto, Parmigianino, Francis Bacon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Juan Gris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Yayoi Kusama ranks 20. Before her are Sergio Leone, Ed Asner, Hassan II of Morocco, Christopher Plummer, Jacques Brel, and Peter Higgs. After her are Irene Papas, Michael Ende, Jean Baudrillard, Frank Gehry, Tigran Petrosian, and Max von Sydow.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yayoi Kusama ranks 32 out of NaN. Before her are Osamu Dazai (1909), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), and Kanō Jigorō (1860). After her are Emperor Kōmei (1831), Hattori Hanzō (1542), Jiroemon Kimura (1897), Isao Takahata (1935), Itō Hirobumi (1841), and Saigō Takamori (1828).

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Among Painters In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Yayoi Kusama ranks 1. After her are Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), Utamaro (1753), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Suzuki Harunobu (1725), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Kunisada (1786), Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Yoshitoshi (1839), Takashi Murakami (1962), and Ogata Kōrin (1658).

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