He also began developing his own pop icon, "Mr. Efforts from this period include performance art (Osaka Mixer Project, 1992), parodies of the "message" art popular in Japan in the early '90s, (Dobozite Dobozite Oshamanbe, 1993), and conceptual works (e.g. This piece is Murakami's most expensive piece to date selling for $15,100,000 at Sotheby's New York auction in 2008. The sculpture is that of a naked anime character with blond spiky hair with a spiral trail of semen circling him. On an article naming and explaining all of Murakami's pieces lies the infamous My Lonesome Cowboy, a companion to his earlier Hiropon. Murakami was dissatisfied with the state of contemporary art in Japan, believing it to be "a deep appropriation of Western trends." Thus, much of his early work was done in the spirit of social criticism and satire. in Nihonga (1993), he gradually became disillusioned with its insular, highly political world and started to explore more contemporary artistic styles, media, and strategies. He attended Tokyo University of the Arts to acquire the drafting skills necessary to become an animator, but eventually majored in Nihonga, the 'traditional' style of Japanese painting that incorporates traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and subjects.
From early on, he was a fan of anime and manga (Japanese cartoons and comics respectively), and hoped to work in the animation industry. Murakami was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Life and career Academic background and early career Artist Takashi Murakami with early work "Polyrhythm" at Galerie Mars in Tokyo 1992.
He was the founder and organizer of the biannual art fair Geisai. Murakami is the founder and President of Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., through which he manages several younger artists. His influential work draws from the aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of postwar Japanese culture. He works in fine arts (such as painting and sculpture) as well as commercial media (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation) and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts. Takashi Murakami ( 村上 隆, Murakami Takashi, born February 1, 1962) is a Japanese contemporary artist.
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