Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami is a japanese artist who uses many different forms of medians. He is known for his paintings, sculptures and commercail media. He formed a technique that is known as "superflat" where he combines japanese animation and traditonal japanese style. I was really drawn to this piece call "Cosmos." The gray-blue background gives you a calming effect like your at piece with the world. But I am drawn to the curving green lines that slowly spiral down the art piece. They start off by themselves and meet together in the bottom middle of the piece. Symboling that we start off by ourselves or with a small group but through life we join bigger groups and is a part of something bigger then just our life. The vines can also symbolize the twists and turns of life but in the end things will work out. The flowers if you look at them in the distance, they just look like regular flowers blooming symbolizing new life, friendships in this entangled world. But if you look at them closwer each one has a smiling face representing all the different people and experiences that you make through your growth of life. In the end, life is good. You can see were he used techniques of superflat. When you look at it afar you can see traditional japanese elements in the drawing with his choice of color, the vines with the leaves and how it spans through the canvas. Then you see formations of the animation aspect where some of the clowers are brighter closers then it would be traditional and the flowers have expressions and faces like they are about to talk to you. IT is a very harmonious piece that brings me confort, joy and calming all at the same time.