Before this class, I have already known Murakami Takashi, and he is one of my favorite designers. At first, the reason why I knew him just because that he designed “Cherries Bag” for Louis Vuitton in 2003. The white and delicate cherry blossom petals and the happy smile face made him famous around the whole world.
After I watched the video --© MURAKAMI, I had more comprehensive understanding of him and his production. I was deeply agreed with Marc Jacobs’s opinion. In the video, Marc Jacobs discussed his collaboration with Murakami Takashi, it’s mentioning that Jacobs is really gorgeous and cute!!! In just a few minutes of access, I can read out the taste of fashion from his clothes, behavior and words~~~~~~It’s amazing! Jacobs said that he was deeply moved by the power and strength from Takashi, I think I can understand this feeling. When I saw the beginning of video, the pink background was brighten my whole eyesight firstly, then with the colorful little daisies that appear on the screen, my mood was mobilized and I feel the atmosphere ever more perfect. This is also the point which I appreciate Takashi Murakami—he expressed his ideas and feeling through every small details. In his exhibition, he mentioned the signboard. This signboard in common people’s eyes is really general, but when he explained it, I know this signboard is integrated a lot of initiative ideas, including the stars, two different colors and so on. From such small details, Takashi Murakami connected the Japanese culture and American culture together, and still adding his own creative minds in it. I remember an interview I've read which about Takashi Murakami, he said, Japanese has no resistance to accept and imitate the Western Culture. He wanted to through himself to creat the productions which are really belong to Japanese culture.
Thereby, in his exhibition, it’s easy to see that the Japanese unique culture in his designing works. From the human form sculptures to Mr. Dob, and then to the sun flower, All these works’ manifestations are Japanese culture’s content: cartoons, animation, cartoon character modeling, illustration, design and photography, as well as the world which Japanese young people were growing up. Takashi Murakami has said his observation about young Japanese: indulged in comic books, video games and cartoon, they almost all grew up in this circumstance, and even he had also become a part of this scenario creator. These represented the Japanese contemporary society, some kind of life and living values-oriented. Because he knew that there exist a big difference between Western contemporary art with Japanese artistic creation, the key is that how our generation can creat the essential things which are not depend on any inherent cultural system. Whereupon, in his creative works, I can see the both culture mixed together. The most famous creation in his work is “Mr. Dob”, in my own opinion, he is a colorful and playful Japanese version of Mickey. When he introduced his exhibition, countless of Mr. Dob appeared on the screen. They have all kinds of smile, some are fantasy, some are lovely, some look fierce, and some even have sharp teeth. When I first saw Mr. Dob, the first word appeared in my mind is "childish", the big eyes, colorful head and different smile attracted me deeply.
Prior to that, I always think that famous artist's work is hard to understand. Under their abstract vision, the feeling and inspire which they wanted to translate to me is hard to catch. Probably because I was too superficial, probably because their levels are too high, I can’t find the resonance in their works. But Murakami's works are different, however, every time I see when I will feel warm. Although someone said his production is naïve, I really like ‘Sun Flower’, I like they are colorful, it’s fantasy that I can get the different feeling when I saw the ‘Sun Flower’ in different color, I understand the charming of color from this work. Takashi Murakami's art, especially "Sun flower', awaking I thought of the fairy tale story. The image of his works is always so cute, naive even dreaming, profusive in color, filled with a strong visual impact, giving me a boost of fresh and beautiful. I would like to say that the most powerful point of Takashi Murakami's work is that his work image is flat, in the face of his works, they are like dolls, like model toys, blend of lovely, fantasy and extreme violence in one production, but judging from the internal, these works actually insinuated the connotations of Japanese cultural. As a work of art, they are difficult to get off the commercial elements, but everyone can admire and understand his intention.
Takashi Murakami used the clear notion to creat his production. In the Tokyo Plastic, the simple lines and shapes iconic images gave me a different feeling. I know that the simple colors, abstract images and special background music make everything looks like creative, but I really have no feeling on this, these images can’t bring a shock to me. I only can see some Japanese elements in here, without this point, I can’t understand the designer’s idea. Like I just said that the feeling and inspire which ‘Japan Plastic’ wanted to translate to me is hard to catch. Comparing to Takashi Murakami, I really enjoy the production from him, when he introduction in the museum, the environment of the museum was very warehouse like, with minimum color and open ceiling, all art works in here really became the focus of the space. I could feel the energy and joy from vibrant colors of paintings and sculptures. I like every design from him, including the cartoon character which created by him, all about ' sunflower ' subsidiary of goods, and even his design of Louis Vuitton’s bags, scarves, and etc….I wanna say that: Naïve is a luxury.
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