January 3rd, 2009 by Monomono

Convenience Store Edition – SUPER FLAT MUSEUM

Takashi Murakami is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist who works in both fine art 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.This resulted in Superflat, the style that Murakami is credited with starting. It developed from Poku, (Pop+ otaku). Murakami has written that he aims to represent Poku culture because he expects that animation and otaku might create a new culture.