PAINTER

Yayoi Kusama

1929 - Today

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Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and she is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, art brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, the world's top-selling female artist, and the world's most successful living artist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yayoi Kusama has received more than 5,518,216 page views. Her biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Yayoi Kusama is the 119th most popular painter (down from 107th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 28th in 2019) 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 119 out of 2,023. Before her are Annibale Carracci, Simone Martini, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Giorgio de Chirico, Juan Gris, and Fernando Botero. After her are Apelles, Arnold Böcklin, Andrea del Sarto, Gustave Moreau, Parmigianino, and Gerrit Dou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Yayoi Kusama ranks 16. Before her are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sergio Leone, Hassan II of Morocco, Imre Kertész, Irene Papas, and Jacques Brel. After her are Michael Ende, Jean Baudrillard, Frank Gehry, Oriana Fallaci, Peter Higgs, and Mohamed Al-Fayed.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yayoi Kusama ranks 32 out of 6,245. Before her are Kanō Jigorō (1860), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Hattori Hanzō (1542), Sadako Sasaki (1943), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), and Saigō Takamori (1828). After her are Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Itō Hirobumi (1841), Isao Takahata (1935), and Emperor Kōmei (1831).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

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

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