Takashi Murakami is a Japanese artist that creates bold Pop Art, which often include colourful, smiling flowers! He became well known in the 1990s and is still making art and film today!
Murakami has created a systematic method of making appealing art which has been influenced by traditional Japanese painting, sci-fi, anime, and the commercial art market.
He makes paintings, sculptures, and films which are populated by repeated motifs, colours and characters of his own creation. He now has a factory where his images are digitally created. Part of the reason for his digitalisation of images is to create the symmetrical and repeated patterns of images that are a huge part of Murakami’s aesthetic.
Murakami also hosts and curates huge exhibitions for emerging artists to show that a mix of culture, art, media and fantasy can come together to create all kinds of new work!