A couple of days ago, I visited a museum in Kyoto with a friend to enjoy an art exhibition by Yayoi Kusama. I first leaned about her when I moved in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture with my family. She's originally from there and there's an enormous tulip sculpture created by her in font of the Matsumoto City museum. When I first saw it, I was shocked because it looked like as if it was almost to swallow us. On the other hand, I was very curious about her art as well because I'd never seen anything giving me such impact.

She has been suffering from schizophrenia since she was a teenager. Her farther had lots of affairs, and her mother couldn't stand it, so they argued all the time. To escape from the domestic issue, she focused on painting. She wanted to escape from visual and auditory hallucination as well. Painting kept her mind peaceful.

Her artworks feature dots. She believed that dots protect her from visual and auditory hallucination and help her maintain mental stability.

She is good at using vivid colors, and her art makes us feel happy because of the wide varieties of vibrant colors. Unfortunately, photography wasn’t allowed at the exhibition, so I just took some pictures of the posters. I'm sorry that I can't share any photos of her art pieces here. If you are more curious about her art, you can see a little bit here. I encourage you to look them up online!

She was awarded the Order of Culture and became fourth female artist to receive it in 2016. She is one of the most famous Japanese female artists, and her artworks are one of the most valuable in the world. She also occasionally corroborates with Luice Vuitton.

I really think her case is an amazing example that art saved someone's life. I'm so happy that she conquered her mental problem through art and ended up being a world famous artist.

She is a couple of years elder than Yoko Ono, who is also world famous as a wife of John Lenon. Both of them studied art in NY during the same period. I wonder if they would meet in person there.

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