Inflatable DOB Sculpture by Takashi Murakami in the Brooklyn Museum, July 2008

Takashi Murakami (村上 隆 ,Murakami Takashi, born 1 February 1963 in Tokyo), is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist who works in both fine arts media, such as painting, as well as digital and commercial media. He blurs the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, "Superflat" paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies.

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