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Takashi Murakami
Mushroom Dob (I-Dob)
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Murakami quickly rose to prominence in the 1990s through the development of his Superflat aesthetic and mantra. This style combines the fatness of traditional Japanese painting’s picture plane with the two dimensionality of American Pop Art. It also embraces much of contemporary Japanese culture, most notably elements from otaku, a subculture that celebrates, in a rather fetishistic manner, the fantastical, hypersexualized, and saccharine figures of anime (animated film) and manga (comic books). The bright psychedelic colors, crisp lines, cutesy characters, and uninterrupted fatness of Mushroom Dob (I-Dob), 1999, make this work a stellar example of all that best characterizes Murakami’s Superfat style.
Takashi Murakami
Japanese | 1962Takashi Murakami is best known for his contemporary combination of fine art and pop culture. He uses recognizable iconography like Mickey Mouse and cartoonish flowers and infuses it with Japanese culture. The result is a boldly colorful body of work that takes the shape of paintings, sculptures and animations.
In the 1990s, Murakami founded the Superflat movement in an attempt to expose the "shallow emptiness of Japanese consumer culture." The artist plays on the familiar aesthetic of mangas, Japanese-language comics, to render works that appear democratic and accessible, all the while denouncing the universality and unspecificity of consumer goods. True to form, Murakami has done collaborations with numerous brands and celebrities including Kanye West, Louis Vuitton, Pharrell Williams and Google.