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Takashi Murakami « Thread Started on Oct 14, 2008, 1:35pm »
Takashi Murakami has been called the Modern day - Warhol of Asia... it could have easily been that Warhol would be called the Murakami of the West, if Andy came after Murakami. Continuing in Warhol's concept of mass consumption of art on all levels of consumerism, Murakami has made his art affordable to all. His originals are owned by celebrities like Jay - Z and Tobey Maguire (costing millions), yet he's taken the time to work with Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton to create beautiful collaborations of art and fashion. His studio even takes time to make art affordable on our level: signed lithographs, t-shirts, and toys.
Murakami is arguably the most influential Asian artist of our generation. He founded a new genre of art called "superflat". Superflat - is a post modern art form that is influenced heavily by Anime and Manga. Instead of striving for 3D likeness, it uses the 2D flattened forms to convey shapes, colors and concepts. Famous superflat artist include: Yoshitomo Nara, Chiho Aoshima, Mahomi Kunikata, and Aya Takano.
Recently he has had retrospectives held at the MOCA in Los Angeles and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
Wish I could own an original Murakami, but I guess these will have to do for now...
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Re: Takashi Murakami « Reply #3 on Oct 14, 2008, 11:10pm »
I like his stuff when it's painted. I didn't quite understand it when he had these huge "OG's" but it looked like a print??? Wouldn't you rather have a smaller handpainted one? Although I guess he never paints them himself anyways...
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Re: Takashi Murakami « Reply #4 on Nov 28, 2008, 8:31pm »
I kinda liked his animation work with Kanye West and especially with Louis Vuitton.
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, whose giant Buddha, bug-eyed monsters and magical mushrooms packed in huge crowds last year at the Museum of Contemporary Art, is putting down roots in Los Angeles. A multifaceted artist who embraces painting and sculpture, film and mass-produced goods as part of a single enterprise, he is planning to open an animation studio here next summer.
Often called Japan's Andy Warhol and headquartered in Tokyo, Murakami already has a studio in New York. But he has decided that Hollywood is the place to expand his filmmaking capabilities. The new studio will operate under the umbrella of Kaikai Kiki, his production and artist-management company.
Murakami3_5 "Animation and film have always been among my greatest influences, ever since I first saw 'Star Wars' and Hayao Miyazaki's films," Murakami said in a statement. "This studio represents a great step in the evolution of Kaikai Kiki and gives me a closer proximity to the community of artists with whom I hope to collaborate as I continue my explorations of animated and live-action film."
The company has leased a building on North Highland Avenue, to be adapted to the studio's needs. With 6,220 square feet of space on the first floor and 2,760 square feet on the second level, the facility is expected to accommodate about 30 employees, said Daniel Rappaport of Management 360, Kaikai Kiki's talent management firm in Los Angeles.
The studio's first project will be a feature-length animated film based on "Planting the Seeds," the shorts that premiered at Murakami's mid-career retrospective at MOCA, Rappaport said. It also created the Kanye West video for "Good Morning." The shorts also appeared last spring at the Brooklyn Museum's version of the exhibition and, more recently, at the 2008 CineVegas Film Festival in Las Vegas. The digitally animated works feature Kaikai and Kiki, the company's cartoon-character namesakes, traveling the world in a spaceship and learning to grow watermelons with the help of fertilizer, or "poop" as they gleefully call it.
Re: Takashi Murakami « Reply #5 on Nov 29, 2008, 5:22pm »
I'm reading a pretty interesting art book and it names Murakami in the top 25 (he's #17) all time contemporary artists. This is the closest I'll get to an original..
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Re: Takashi Murakami « Reply #6 on Dec 3, 2008, 12:15am »
Article from L.A. Times...
Murakami animation studio coming to L.A.
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, whose giant Buddha, bug-eyed monsters and magical mushrooms packed in huge crowds last year at the Museum of Contemporary Art, is putting down roots in Los Angeles. A multifaceted artist who embraces painting and sculpture, film and mass-produced goods as part of a single enterprise, he is planning to open an animation studio here next summer.
Often called Japan's Andy Warhol and headquartered in Tokyo, Murakami already has a studio in New York. But he has decided that Hollywood is the place to expand his filmmaking capabilities. The new studio will operate under the umbrella of Kaikai Kiki, his production and artist-management company.
"Animation and film have always been among my greatest influences, ever since I first saw 'Star Wars' and Hayao Miyazaki's films," Murakami said in a statement. "This studio represents a great step in the evolution of Kaikai Kiki and gives me a closer proximity to the community of artists with whom I hope to collaborate as I continue my explorations of animated and live-action film."
The company has leased a building on North Highland Avenue, to be adapted to the studio's needs. With 6,220 square feet of space on the first floor and 2,760 square feet on the second level, the facility is expected to accommodate about 30 employees, said Daniel Rappaport of Management 360, Kaikai Kiki's talent management firm in Los Angeles.
The studio's first project will be a feature-length animated film based on "Planting the Seeds," the shorts that premiered at Murakami's mid-career retrospective at MOCA, Rappaport said. It also created the Kanye West video for "Good Morning." The shorts also appeared last spring at the Brooklyn Museum's version of the exhibition and, more recently, at the 2008 CineVegas Film Festival in Las Vegas. The digitally animated works feature Kaikai and Kiki, the company's cartoon-character namesakes, traveling the world in a spaceship and learning to grow watermelons with the help of fertilizer, or "poop" as they gleefully call it.
Lori Earley; Victor Castillo; Bethany Marchman; Brian Despain; Brian M. Viveros; Kevin Lewellyn; Melissa Forman; Krista Huot; Kathie Olivas; Chris Peters; Audrey Kawasaki; Brandi Milne; tin; Jennybird Alcantara; Laurie Lipton; Brian Horton; Michael Hussar; Scott Radke; Sylvia Ji; Mike Brown; David Stoupakis
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