Yayoi Kusama Made TIME's "The 100 Most Influential People"

Another good news, folks, of a 87-year-old Japanese woman artist picked among TIME's "The Most Influential People" this year. Well, well, it's high time she made it, though. This is Nathan Shiga and here to share it with you all.

Yayoi Kasama is the notorious woman avant-garde artist and writer, known for her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition and pattern. She is a precursor of the pop art, minimalist and feminist art movements.

TIME Magazine does this every year - selecting each year 100 people having most influenced that year. Kusama was the only Japanese picked for the Artist Division.

Writing on Yayoi Kusama, Designer Marc Jacobs recalls the day he met her for the first time in her studio in Tokyo in 2006. What he had been told of her being a special person was incredible true, he says. He vividly remembers Kusama kept on repeating certain phrases time and again: "We must create, we must create, it's important that we create.

Jacobs says:

"When people look back at her work decades from now, they’ll see that her idea of creation and infinity has eternal endurance."

Among this year's "100 Most Influential People", TIME selected Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanma in the Leaders Division. The US President Barack Obama introduces her in his comment, saying:

"I was struck immediately by Daw Aung San Sy Kyi's quiet dignity. The Lady remains a beacon of hope for 50 million people reaching for justice and for millions more around the world."

Also included in the list are four US Presidential candidates two each from both parties - Donald Trump and Ted Cruz of the Republican Party and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders of the Democratic Party.

A "black sheep" mingles in the list by the name of Kim Jong Un of North Korea - regular name for six years in a row. What a shame.