Blog Assasignment #5

Takashi Murakami

1. My major is digital arts. Takashi Murakami has many digital works in different forms and is the founder of KaiKai Kiki Co., where assistants help him with his artwork and as an environment for marketing his work and the teaching of new Japanese Artist.

2. His work is mostly social commentary of mass media. Like Andy Warhol he takes something that considered low culture and repackages it. But what makes Murkami different from Warhol, is that his work is available in many different forms, such as paintings, sculptures, videos, plush dolls, mouse pads, key chains, and cellphone caddies. Even Louis Vuitton handbags. In 2005 he inspired the "Cherry Blossom" logo.

3. I like how he made use of the anime style to comment on otaku culture. Also he has work in both the fine arts and digital arts. Also the style he uses called Superflat is new to me and kind of interesting.

4. In some pieces the dominance seems to be in size or number. The most dominance thing on the page sometimes seems to be the largest object on the page or whatever has the most number of eyes.

5. Murakmai had made statues of an anime style woman and an anime styled man. The anime woman statue called Hiropan has unrealistically large breasts with a bikini top that barely covers them and other statue called My Lonesome Cowboy is a nude anime-styled man using semen as a lasso. The works are comments on overly-sexed anime.

6. I can see that one can do a lot with the anime style, especially since I like to draw that way. The works might be helpful in helping me push my ideas more.

7. Murakami's work is literally every colorful. He mostly makes good use of colors and hues that normally look great when they adjacent to each other. He doesn't use complementary colors often by the looks of most of his work.