Yayoi Kusama // Flowers, 1985

  • Yayoi Kusama, Flowers, 1985. Screenprint on Vélin d’Arches paper, 53.3 × 60.8 cm, edition of 100. Features Kusama’s bold floral imagery with repeating forms and vivid colour, a recurring motif across her printmaking practice.
    Flowers, 1985
    Screenprint in colours on Vélin d’Arches paper, 53.3 × 60.8 cm (21 × 23 9/10 in.), Edition of 100
    © Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only. 
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    Yayoi Kusama’s Flowers (1985) is a screenprint in colours on Vélin d’Arches paper, measuring 53.3 × 60.8 cm and produced in an edition of 100. The print exemplifies Kusama’s enduring fascination with organic motifs, in this case, transforming the flower into a vivid, surreal presence. Its bold composition captures the duality often present in her work, where beauty and vibrancy are entwined with psychological intensity.
     
    In Flowers, the floral form becomes more than a decorative subject. Kusama uses layered colour and repetition to amplify the motif, blurring the line between natural imagery and abstract pattern. The blossoms radiate across the surface with hypnotic energy, evoking both growth and dissolution. The result is an image that reflects the cycle of life, connecting themes of nature, mortality, and regeneration.
     
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  • “When I create art, it is an attempt to survive.”

     — Yayoi Kusama

    The work also demonstrates Kusama’s ability to translate her large-scale obsessions into the intimate medium of printmaking. By compressing her world of infinity nets, dots, and biomorphic shapes into a smaller scale, Kusama makes her motifs accessible to collectors while retaining their conceptual power. Flowers is both a personal reflection on memory and an emblem of her wider exploration into repetition, obsession, and the infinite.