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Los Angeles Museum to Host Takashi Murakami Lecture

posted on by Mikhail Koulikov
Creator of anime-inspired Superflat style on inspirations, practices, plans

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles will feature a special discussion with Japanese artist travel to New York City's Brooklyn Museum of Art, and from there, to Frankfurt, and Bilbao, Spain.

Murakami is known best for originating the Superflat aesthetic of modern Japanese art, which draws heavily on anime imagery. He has utilized the style in deg consumer products like animated shorts and the cover artwork for Kanye West's Graduation album.

Image © Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved


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