NSFW: Yayoi Kusama Gets A Graphic Novel Exploring Key Dots Of Her Life NSFW
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It’s a remarkable feat for an artist to get their work and face recognized. Yayoi Kusama, dubbed as the “most popular artist in the world,” has managed to achieve this even with the casual museumgoer. People see the petite Japanese woman with the piercing gaze and fiery red bob, and they’ll instantly be reminded of her psychedelic polka-dotted realms.
Which is why the new KUSAMA: The Graphic Novel is set to be a thing of curiosity among art lovers and the mainstream audience alike.
The graphic novel, written and illustrated by Italian-Thai artist Elisa Macellari, connects the dots from Kusama’s childhood in rural Japan, to her courageous move to New York in the 60s, and finally her ascension to international fame in the saturated sea of Instagrammable art.
Macellari’s take on Kusama’s signature style—her polka dots, reds, and unending dreamlike worlds—walks you through the profound mental scape of the troubled contemporary artist.
KUSAMA: The Graphic Novel, the first-ever graphic novel on Kusama, will retail for US$19.99 from 15 September on Laurence King’s website.
It is the third book in the publisher’s Graphic Lives series, which delves into the lives of some of the world’s most celebrated artists, and follows graphic novels on Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jackson Pollock. A visual treatment on the life of Katsushika Hokusai of The Great Wave off Kanagawa fame is poised to arrive in 2021.
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