© Stacy L Smith 2013
So I have been pondering throughout the week who and what I was going to write about. This morning I made the decision to just flip through an Art Forum Magazine that I have been carrying with me for the past week and just look at art until something caught my notice. There in the first ten pages I came across an intriguing character by Takashi Murakami.
It didn't occur to me until I googled his work, that I have seen quite a bit of his work before and in fact, I saw it on a street corner shop when I was in New York City a couple of years ago. Like Shepherd Fairy's 'Andre the Giant' print with the words "OBEY," Murakami's work has infiltrated our capitalist society with his self-termed style "Superflat" and can be found on shoes, stickers, limited edition Louis Vuitton hand bags, album covers, and as small inflatables to be purchased and displayed or "toyed" with. Even DeadMau5 (pronounced 'Dead Mouse') blatantly copied the artist work for their cover art.
It didn't occur to me until I googled his work, that I have seen quite a bit of his work before and in fact, I saw it on a street corner shop when I was in New York City a couple of years ago. Like Shepherd Fairy's 'Andre the Giant' print with the words "OBEY," Murakami's work has infiltrated our capitalist society with his self-termed style "Superflat" and can be found on shoes, stickers, limited edition Louis Vuitton hand bags, album covers, and as small inflatables to be purchased and displayed or "toyed" with. Even DeadMau5 (pronounced 'Dead Mouse') blatantly copied the artist work for their cover art.