Research On The Meaning Of Yayoi Kusama’s Plant Works

Yayoi Kusama,a great Japanese female artist across the ages.Known as the Queen of the Dot,she has applied personal elements and symbols to the extreme,and has achieved countless artistic achievements,with world-class influence.Among his colorful artistic creations,the works on plants are particularly numerous.Plants are a colorful chapter in the artistic career of Yayoi Kusama,and are also its constant theme.Plants are one of the sources of artistic symbols."Art is the pictographic symbol of human emotion." Understanding the different symbolic meanings of various symbols is crucial to the understanding of artistic works,The same symbol also has different emotional expressions and metaphors under certain circumstances.This paper takes plant symbols as clues to analyze the creative logic of Yayoi Kusama,focusing on the importance of emotion in artistic creation.The first chapter of this paper analyzes the formation and transformation of his painting style from the perspective of historical background,social environment,psychological factors,etc.The second chapter summarizes the schematic language symbols,visual and perceptual picture performance in his representative works,and makes an in-depth artistic interpretation of the plant theme works of Yayoi Kusama from the shallow to the deep.The third chapter reveals the importance of emotional symbols in Yayoi Kusama’s self-healing art through psychological theory and Susanne K.Langer’s art theory.The fourth chapter combines the characteristics of symbol communication,This paper analyzes the factors of the success of the plant symbol works of Asama in society and commerce.The purpose of this paper is to explore the emotional meaning of the plant symbols in the works of Yayoi Kusama based on the main line of his plant works and the theory of semiotics,which will help expand the perspective of artistic creation and give guidance and inspiration to contemporary art creators.