Murakami's Superflat High Art

Takashi Murakami is the artist who created the artstyle “superflat”. His artwork is inspired by the otaku culture which he finds it to be the . Born and raised in Tokyo and from early in his life he wanted to become an animator as he attended to the Tokyo University of Arts but changed to Nihonga, the traidional style of Japanese painting. But he became disappointed in the field’s highly political world and changed to different medium. He took inspiration of the Otaku culture in his own country whose focus on mainly things that were considered "kawaii" or cute in english which he depicted as "A shallow emptiness of Japanese consumer" and developed the style “Superflat” which is the 2-dimensional imagery that has continued since ancient japan to the well known anime and manga of today. One of his iconic symbols is the one of "Mr Dob" which is big bubble head smiling mouse.He is well known to sell “low art” and repackage it as “high art” as his pieces are some of the most desirable in the world.