... The artist... has created an ever-expanding kaleidoscope matrix of happy flowers, fanged mushrooms, winking eyeballs, and mutant cartoon characters that are at once sweet and deliciously menacing... Takashi Murakami is the originator of the "Superflat" movement, a major international aesthetic current that acknowledges the primacy of two-dimensionality in Japanese visual art, animation, fashion and graphic art. Trained in nihon-ga -- a 19th century term used to describe the "Japanese style" of painting that was fundamentally different from Western styles -- Takashi Murakami absorbed classical painting techniques before honing his own approach, which bears a strong affinity with manga (Japanese comics) and anime (Japanese animation). ...
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