Saturday, May 24, 2008

Jonathan Ross's Interview with Takashi Murakami



Personal Note: The comments in this video mirror my own upon seeing Murakami's work for the first time, which is why my thesis is so heavily driven by the cartoon aesthetic.
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Robert Stone said...

Jon,

Still watching these videos you are putting up:
http://www.youtube.com/v/l3i2hyHK0_g&hl=en&rel=0

I found an article titled, "Move over, Andy Warhol":
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501030526-452870,00.html
with this quote from Takashi Murakami:

"I need to rebuild the wall between the commercial art and the fine art I do," he says. "I need to focus on the fine-art side of me for a while."

I haven't figured out what SuperFlat is but I think that it may have something to do with a new approach to perspective. Wkikpedia says that Murakami uses the term for shallow emptiness of Japanese consumer culture. Were you not talking about consumerism a while back?

That "My Lonesome Cowboy" sculpture is -- I started to say an eye-opener -- you can fill in the alternative.

Robert

May 24, 2008 9:55 AM

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