Art Competitors
Known for his brightly coloured and cheerful works, in which Japanese popular culture and the country’s wealthy artistic legacy merge, Takashi Murakami has loved astronomical fame within the up to date art world. His Pop Art-like aesthetics catapulted modern Japanese obsessions such as anime into the mainstream art world. Inspired by his work as a highly paid industrial illustrator in New York, Andy Warhol’s screen-printed photographs of everyday shopper objects and visual imagery from mainstream media would come to outline the Pop Art motion. As reigning king, he helped blur the boundaries between excessive and low art, bringing what was …