Murakami Takashi (2D)

      Murakami Takashi was born in Tokyo Japan 1963. He works in fine arts media such as painting and sculpture as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media fashion, merchandise, and animation and is known for blurring the line between high and low art. He received BFA, MFA and PhD from Tokyo National University of Art and Music. He has had recent solo shows at Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York 2003), foundation Cartier Pourl' art comtemporain Paris 2002, Museum of contemporary art (Tokyo 2001), museum of fine arts (Boston 2001), Galorie Emmanuel Peroration (Paris 2001).

"If my art looks positive and cheerful, I would doubt my art was accepted in the contemporary art scene. My art is not pop art. It is a record of the struggle of the discriminated people" Takashi Murakami


Takashi's works has been exhibited in prestigious museums all over the world, including the Tokyo metropolitan museum of art, the museum of fine arts, Boston; and a recent solo retrospective exhibition at the Bard college Museum of Art.
Murakami has also curated "Super Flat" an exhibition of contemporary artists.
From 2007 to 2009, Murakami’s first retrospective Murakami traveled from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, to the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, and lastly the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. The exhibition earned wide-spread attention for, among other things, including a fully functioning Louis Vuitton boutique as one of the exhibits.
In 2008, Murakami was named one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People", the only visual artist included.

In September, 2010 Murakami became the third contemporary artist, and first Japanese, to exhibit his works at the Palace of Versailles in France, filling 15 rooms and the park with his sculptures, paintings, a decorative carpet, and lamps.

This is one of his work. This picture is very famous of his so I drew this picture in my sketchbook but I changed the colour of the background and changed some other bit that I don't like. I have done some works of his in my sketchbook on pages 52,53,56 and 68.  







 This is the video of his works in Japan, so many places and shop has his work pictures toys etc... This is the really great video.