Yayoi Kusama

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Portrait SSA (2009)

Dignified and solemn but cheerful and mysterious at the same time. This is a very real representation, assuming (as I do) that reality does not exist.

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Pumpkin (2000)

Absolutely stunning...

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Flower (D.S.P.S.) (1954)

"One day I was looking at the red flower patterns of the tablecloth on a table, and when I looked up I saw the same pattern covering the ceiling, the windows and the walls, and finally all over the room, my body and the universe. I felt as if I had begun to self-obliterate, to revolve in the infinity of endless time and the absoluteness of space, and be reduced to nothingness. As I realized it was actually happening and not just in my imagination, I was frightened. I knew I had to run away lest I should be deprived of my life by the spell of the red flowers. I ran desperately up the stairs. The steps below me began to fall apart and I fell down the stairs straining my ankle." ---Yayoi Kusama

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Butterfly (1988)

How does our perception works? Why doe we see things as we do? Why do we sometimes have these moments when we see a thing which is not really there? Or maybe it's always been there but we've just managed to see it for a second...

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Eyes of mine (2010)

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I want to live honestly, like the eye in the picture (2009)

Is it ever possible?

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Polka Dots Madness 6

I would love being in this room. Just imagine. Love those shapes.

Thank you Yayoi:

Yayoi Kusama

Ynez Johnston

Amusement Land (1956)

So much going on, so many colors and shapes. And yet, it all as if flows, moves. Nothing is stable and nothing is assigned specific place. Imagination is finally freed from the obligation to mean and represent... Feelings, sensations, images...

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Abstraction with Fish (1947)

I'm furious with myself that I glimpsed the title of this one. But, nevertheless, there is such sadness and a feeling of being overwhelmed by something or is it just weariness with everyday life?

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Alpine Spring (2002)

It does look like an Aztecan village to me, sorry, nothing more to say ;)
Maybe apart from - I really like it :)

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Voyage in Africa (1949)

Why in Africa? I see churches, churches everywhere...

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Crossing the Date-line

This one is genius-like to me. Cross-culturalism, I would call it. So true and so beautiful...

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That's, of course, not all and probably not enough. Under each picture (of a reproduction) I allowed myself to put some comments which are absolutely subjective and lack professional zeal. Forgive me and feel free to add any interesting comments of yours as well, be them professional or purely aesthetic and emotional :)

Oh, and that's the painter herself:

Ynez Johnston (1957) 

How I like it

Hi everyone!

I'm not a connoisseur and neither have I some precise taste in art but there are definitely things that appeal to me, move me or just make me think. As I've been collecting some online reproductions (or let's just call them pics ;) for some time I decided to make it public and relieve my disc capacity ;)
Nothing here is predefined. I will try to publish pictures of various artworks by author on a fairly regular basis :)
Let's enjoy/contemplate art/life together :)