Louis Vuitton gets spotted Yayoi Kusama with drawings

   TOKYO - Polka dots are a source of inspiration to Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama is the obsession and passion.

And that's why they're everywhere - not just on canvas but on institutions like gnarled tentacles and oversized yellow pumpkins. As part of his retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, she gl? Coins as "Firefly" reflected lights on the water and mirrors.

Bags, sunglasses, shoes and coats M - Splash signing Kusama points now arrived in the field of fashion in a collection of Franz sisch luxury brand Louis Vuitton?.

"Polka dots are fabulous," Kusama said in a recent interview with the Associated Press, looking much younger than his 83 years in a wig bright red polka dot dress she designed herself and a new Louis Vuitton scarves peas.

Points aside, Kusama cut a strange figure in the world of fashion. She lived in a mental hospital for decades fighting the D? Hormones that lead to ren his art?.

However, in his Tokyo workshop filled with exciting murals size? S with repeating points, Kusama said collaboration is a natural product of his friendship with Louis Vuitton artistic director Marc Jacobs made.

Louis Vuitton had success 10 years ago, marked by working on a number of pockets with another Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. Kusama is pr latest collection in its stores around the world? Presents, including New York, Paris, Tokyo and Singapore, sometimes with dolls replica Kusama.

"Peas on products much," said Louis Vuitton, tr up to € 24000000000 ($ 29 billion) in sales, an important part in Japan? Gt "No heart, no beginning and no end."

Dots appear in the work Kusama began more than 50 years, from his beg? Nts as a pioneering Japanese venture abroad.

Like most middle-class families in Japan these days, his parents, who were holding a flower nursery, eager to marry only. They wanted her kimono, not to buy paints and brushes. She knew she had to leave. And they w? Selected America.

Points may be fashionable today. But if Kusama arrived in New York in 1958, was the enthusiasm of "action painting" by dribbling, swooshes and stains in no points. She has suffered from years of poverty and oblivion. But she continued to paint points.

She put paper circles on the K? Body of man, and even a horse in the "happening" anti-war performance in the 1960s, some people who were due to obscene t nit? Arrested, but it was the attention the media for his art. In New York, she artists like Andy Warhol, Georgia O'Keefe and Joseph Cornell, who praised his innovative style befriended.

Since then, times have caught Kusama.

In 2008, Christie auction work for $ 5.8 million. His retrospective at the Whitney Museum was formerly the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Tate Modern in London. Earlier this month, a large e exhibition "Eternity of Eternal Eternity" it opens? Matsumoto in his hometown, Pr? Nagano Prefecture, complete with shuttle peas.

"I always get to the F? Ability, Kusama amazed and based on current trends entirely original," said Lynn Zelevansky, Carnegie Museum of Art Director.

"W? During his years in New York merged his work Abstract Expressionist art elements and minimalist pop with a touch adds sexuality? T and the infamy of the K? Rperfunktionen. She was a pioneer of feminist art in the 1970s and a Gro part? the work that has been done in the 80s to the AIDS crisis, "she said.

Points had a beginning rather sad Kusama. Since childhood she had recurring hallucinations. A portrait t? By her mother when she was 10 years old, shows a sad face freckles. Immersed himself in his art, a way to his fears? Hallucinations and was overcome.

Since his return to Japan 40 years ago, Kusama has lived in a mental hospital and is on medication to prevent depression and suicidal thoughts readers. But they f? Leads t? Resembled in his studio and working hard on his Leinw ends?.

Kusama, who also directed films and ffentlichte ver? Several novels, she confessed to not know where she gets her ideas. It only takes his brush and begins to draw.

"I think, 'Oh, I pulled it? I thought," she said in her dour character speaking down-to-fact style.

Over the years, Kusama has made original works, but beautiful n like "Macaroni Girl," a female figure with macaroni, pushing the fear of food plastered, "Flowers Vision for only 'giant sculptures of tulips and torsion" Corridor mirror "a room with mirrors illusion that a phallic protuberances scattered field points supplies.

? "? Revolution re engineering"? - Works triumphant celebrations humorous potential vulnerability and challenge as Kusama herself that ring at a point rt, a, then the n next day, mumbles: "I am so ver ngstigt all the time , everything. "

His latest project is an ambitious series of Gem? Lden with whimsical patterns such as triangles and swirls with point mark in almost fluorescent bright colors.

As Kusama worked on the 196-series, the concentration was still look childish as wild as red dots in the white? S points, one painting at a time.

"I want to create a thousand pictures, maybe two thousand lden Gem?, Pull as far as I can," she said. "I'm going to paint until I die."