Looking back at 2023, despite the global economic turmoil, Asian collectors’ demand for art treasures remained strong in the second half of the year. For example, the “20th and 21st Century Art Auction” held by Christie’s earlier this autumn achieved great success. One of the highlights was a painting by the Japanese national treasure artist Yayoi Kusama, created with her beloved and important theme, “flowers.”
Yayoi Kusama values nature, flowers, and the relationship between humans and them, often drawing inspiration from them. The flowers in her works typically showcase contrasting concepts such as blooming and withering, celebration and mourning, masculinity and femininity, and so on.
The artwork “A Flower” created in 2014 was sold for a staggering 78.125 million Hong Kong dollars. Yayoi Kusama used a large number of dots to intricately arrange the form of flowers, creating a sense of contrast through variations in depth and density. The network composed of dots weaves an infinite universe. Observers may notice that the “lines” on the artwork “move” with changes in light and darkness. This visual illusion is a result of the artist’s exceptional brushwork and composition, evoking inner emotions in the viewers.
Further reading:
- Capture the city landscape and stories! Local picture book artist Mao Shan’s solo exhibition is now open at Parallel Space
- The latest exhibition at Tai Kwun: “Green Snake: Ecology at the Center of Women”, exploring the connection between art and ecology
- Atsuro Tayama collaborates with French painter Raoul Dufy, bringing landscape masterpieces into the wardrobe
