Cover artwork for Kanye West’s single, Stronger by Murakami
Louis Vuitton Monogram Multicolore
Takashi Murakami’s style, called Superflat, is characterised 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.
Like Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami takes low culture, repackages it and sells it to the highest bidder in the “high-art market”. Unlike Warhol, Murakami also makes his repacked low culture available to all other markets in the form of paintings, sculptures, videos, T-shirts, key chains, mouse pads, plush dolls, cell phone caddies, and $5,000 limited edition Louis Vuitton handbags.
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