This link has been bookmarked by 7 people . It was first bookmarked on 13 Nov 2007, by Nele Noppe.
-
01 Aug 10
-
The term is Murakami's own, his manifesto on the way various forms of graphic design, pop culture and fine arts are compressed -- flattened -- in Japan. The term also refers to the two-dimensionality of Japanese graphic art and animation, as well as to the shallow emptiness of its consumer culture.
-
commercial art media meets fine art.
-
"My goal was to make money
-
From 1986 to 1993, Murakami studied nihon-ga at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, earning bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. In 1989, he took a trip to New York where he saw Jeff Koons' erotic sculptures -- a distinct contrast to the academic peaches and lotus blossoms he had been learning to render in mineral pigments mixed with glue. "What's that?" he recalls thinking. "I had to change my position to understand the contemporary art concepts."
-
traditional Japanese themes, especially the celebration of playful childlike humor.
-
reflects upon and slyly interrogates postwar, postrecovery Japanese art and popular culture, voraciously absorbing and engaging both history and culture from Japan and the Wes
-
the result of Japan's long recession. The bubble burst in the early '90s, creating a generation that faced a level of economic uncertainty unknown since the '50s
-
Murakami feels that Japan's long celebration of consumerism has turned to critique.
-
"Now, we have a chance to think, 'what is my life?'"
-
Superflat artists, Murakami says, create their own version of popular culture to draw attention to the dominance of the media, entertainment and consumption
-
many in the exhibition work in the industries they critique
-
collectives or under pseudonyms
-
Japanese celebration of cute or "kawai-i."
-
"Once I started using it, though, I found that it was applicable to a number of concepts that I had previously been unable to comprehend, including 'What is free expression?' 'What is Japan?' and 'What is the nature of this period I live in?'β¦
-
I would be happy if (Superflat) was even a small step toward clarifying the characteristics of Japanese 'art' which have long remained so ambiguous."
-
-
06 Dec 07
-
03 Mar 06
-
12 Feb 06
-
The term is Murakami's own, his manifesto on the way various forms of graphic design, pop culture and fine arts are compressed -- flattened -- in Japan. The term also refers to the two-dimensionality of Japanese graphic art and animation, as well as to the shallow emptiness of its consumer culture. Murakami first used it to label an exhibition he organized for the PARCO department store museums in Tokyo and Nagoya.
-
Page Comments
Would you like to comment?
Join Diigo for a free account, or sign in if you are already a member.