Takashi Murakami (村上 隆, Murakami Takashi?, born in Tokyo), is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist who works in both fine arts media, such as painting, as well as digital and commercial media. He blurs the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, "Superflat" paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies.
Takashi Murakami X Louis Vuitton
As seen on the Kanye West album cover.... Graduation.
Murakami's style, called Superflat, is characterized by flat planes of color and graphic images involving a character style derived from anime and manga. Superflat is an artistic style that comments on otaku lifestyle and subculture, as well as consumerism and sexual fetishism.
Takahashi Murakami will present a large-scale exhibition in 2012 at the most unlikely of places in Qatar. The exhibition is slated to be even larger than his Palace of Versailles exhibition slated for opening in September. Qatar’s 2012 exhibition comes on the heels of an involvement from the Qatar Museums Authority.
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