水玉の芸術家・草間彌生さん死去

Welcome to Japanese Daily News. I'm Maya. Today is August twenty-seventh. Yayoi Kusama, the artist loved around the world for her polka dots and pumpkin sculptures, has died at the age of ninety-seven. Let's listen.

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Yayoi Kusama, the artist known worldwide for her polka-dot paintings and pumpkin works, died at a Tokyo hospital on the fourteenth of this month. She was ninety-seven.

It means artist.

In nineteen fifty-seven she moved to the United States and worked as an avant-garde artist, mainly in New York.

Here it means to go over to another country.

In nineteen ninety-eight she held a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, becoming one of the world's most popular artists.

It means a solo exhibition of one artist's work.

Her sculptures of yellow pumpkins with black polka dots are especially famous as her signature works.

It means an artist's most representative, signature work.

According to her official website, she never let go of her brush, creating art until just before she died.

It means to let go of something.

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Time for a short quiz. Listen and try to answer.

Ninety-seven years old.

A yellow pumpkin, with black polka dots.

Kagawa Prefecture.

That's all for today. For over seventy years her polka dots filled the world with color, and her art will keep inspiring people everywhere. See you next time on Japanese Daily News.