Framed Polka Dot Artwork
Framed Polka dot framed art was made famous by the artist Yayoi Kusama. Now in her 80s, her career began in the 1940s in Japan. She moved to New York City in 1957 and showed her work among artists like Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg. Her first step in a rise to fame occurred when she covered nude bodies with her symbol, which is the polka dot. It is from this that many get their inspiration for framed polka dot art on canvas.
She continued to use polka dots throughout her career. The polka dots first came into her drawings at the age of 10. She calls them “Infinity Nets” which is a reference to her hallucinatory relationship that she has with them. This later encompassed mirror in what she calls “Mirror/Infinity” rooms. Her framed polka dot art prints have been displayed around the world, in the Whitney, Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
Yayoi Kusama now lives voluntarily in a mental hospital in Tokyo where she still produces art to this day. “If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago,” She has said. The polka dots keep her going.
Kusama has received numerous awards, including the Asahi Prize in 2001, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2003, and the National Lifetime Achievement Awards, the Order of the Rising Sun in 2006. In 2006 She became the first Japanese woman to receive the Praemium Imperiale. She also recived the Person of Cultural Merit in 2009 and Ango aweards in 2014.