Critical studies

 Authorship talk 

After our talk on Tuesday we were asked to go away and research two artists that have a distinguishable authorship to there work. The second artist I've decided to look at is Yayoi Kusama. 

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works in a wide range of mediums but primarily focusing on installation and sculpture. Despite working in a vast range of media her authorship over her own work can be distinctively seen through one ongoing theme throughout each and every piece, polka dots. These polka dot works are heavily informed by her own personal experience of mental health, trauma and hallucination's as a child, she took these experiences and reimagined them into her own personal brand. She's taken this use of dots so far as to be labelled by some as "the princess of polka dots".  Kusamas work found a large attraction in the early 60s, however taking a large break within her public artistic world, although she recently re found her fame and practice through social media like Instagram. This use of Instagram has helped reinforce her authorship after her break from the public eye through her installations, inparticularly "the infinity rooms", these submersive mirrored rooms of dots are of course coincidently the perfect Instagram photo opportunity, with these images and posts going viral, her polka dots and use of them has now been re-recognized as distinctively her work even by the greater public who may have lesser knowledge of such prominent artists.  So her authorship comes from her stylized distinctive use of polka dots but has been reinforced by the use of social media.