Takashi MURAKAMI ~~ Birth of SUPERFLAT

[villaszplugg]

'surrealistically' isn't a word.... sums up the entire 'highly theoretical' art wank.

[cardo182]

@villaszplugg Surrealistically is the adverb of surrealism.

surrealism [səˈrɪəˌlɪzəm]

n

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) (sometimes capital) a movement in art and literature in the 1920s, which developed esp from dada, characterized by the evocative juxtaposition of incongruous images in order to include unconscious and dream elements

[from French surréalisme, from sur-1 + réalisme realism]

surrealist n & adj

surrealistic adj

surrealistically adv

[GodLovesSkittles]

No, this DEFINITELY reminds me of Exit Through The Gift Shop...

[KeesWestervelt]

@GodLovesSkittles Please explain yourself, because i think this hasn't much to do with Exit Through The Gift Shop. Takashi draws en designs everything himself that a important and big difference excuse me if my English is poor

[GodLovesSkittles]

This kind of reminds me of Exit Through The Gift Shop.

[zebredpooding]

i respect him as an artist , but anything with more than two eyes is just plain creepy.....and those sharp teeth. i couldnt have something like that hanging in my house. id have nightmares. the flowers though are so CUTE! i want a painting of smiley flowers. but yeah i undersatand the superflat theory....even the flowers are disturbing in a way but i forget that because they are cute and smiling.

[YuiYamana]

Barefoot Gen footage....now I am depressed

[FrozenFenrir]

@MultiRipper88 funny coincidence, my bachelor project im currently working on is based on murakami

[veryago]

material and plaster?



[gabebrown56]

@MultiRipper88 inochi kun

[ROy1849]

i think its more of hes found the art that makes him complete and instead of waiting for someone else to become a fan of it to make items and trinkets of of it. He did it him self. It like if Nintendo right after making legend of Zelda ocarina of time created a huge ocarina to showcase. But the does because he LOVES his art

[tayloreh]

is Japanese culture unapologetically capitalistic because they're 'numb', as Murakami put it - because creativity requires feelings that Hiroshima took away from their culture, and hence, from their future? Is that the theory? - But why would a human-made catastrophe like Hiroshima inspire them to make a catastrophe out of their own lives, slowly causing a hiroshima for their own environment and creativity? Are they so numb that 'big' is all they can feel? Self-pity, it seems like to me.

[YuiYamana]

@tayloreh I think he means that can rise to greater heights after having everything taken away. I think they mean they won't let tragedy get in the way because they have experienced the worst worldly tragedy

[tayloreh]

I love how he just believes whatever curators and art 'experts' tell him.

[Kumashaahime]

Is this saying anime is superficial and must be replaced with old art,

or is it saying anime from art to a business?

[BBoyMwieeuhh]

Man he got to collobarate with KAWS

[TimeManInJail]

i don't believe so it isn't something new its always existed just wasn't refine, children always have high aptitude of creativity and they are able to diverge into multiple layers of orthodox approach to what they see in the world - color- shape -brightness -darkness. For japan its a paradox, lost identity instead gave multiple attempts and so forth concluded japan to be so much *fashion* and *toys* our western ideals revolve around economic which suffocate our creativity.