Takashi Murakami, a multifaceted artist who works in sculpture, painting, printmaking, installation, and more. He's called "the Japanese Andy Warhol," a rather simplistic nickname that nonetheless explains his art a bit. Because Murakami is pure Pop....
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Takashi Murakami, a multifaceted artist who works in sculpture, painting, printmaking, installation, and more. He's called "the Japanese Andy Warhol," a rather simplistic nickname that nonetheless explains his art a bit. Because Murakami is pure Pop. He draws on popular culture and uses it as a tool. In fact, his signature characters are now pop icons in themselves. Takashi Murakami was born and raised in Tokyo in the 1960s. His goal was to work in animation or manga, so he studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, specializing in Nihonga, the traditional Japanese painting style. With tradition in mind, he began to take an interest in more contemporary styles. A trip to New York led him to draw on influences from American art. He thus began to create art with a Japanese essence but with enormous and evident Western influences. He also began to focus on popular culture, that "low culture" as opposed to "high art," as is the case with otaku (anime and manga). Thus was born Superflat. Superflat is a postmodern artistic movement that provides an "external" interpretation of Japanese popular culture through the eyes of the otaku subculture. Murakami begins to show a critical look at consumerism and sexual fetishism (which prevailed after the westernization of Japanese culture after the war), capitalist neurosis, repetition, distortion... Murakami creates his own characters such as Mr. Dob, a kind of self-portrait, repeated flowers that fill the entire surface, Buddhist images, or hypersexualized drawings. The artist also plays with scales, and often creates large-scale works, or series of the same piece in small format.
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