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Takashi Murakami has used a variety of materials in his work, and his characters have appeared across a wide range of media. His sculptures include silkscreened maple hardwood skateboard decks and cast vinyl figurines (polyvinyl chloride), and he has created silkscreen prints, ink drawings with permanent marker, and offset color lithographs on wove paper. Murakami is a filmmaker, too, and has produced paintings in oil and acrylics. The artist is supported by a large production studio and artist management company that he founded called Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami may be famous among collectors for the psychedelic flowers and chaotic cartoons that populate his prints and paintings, but artists likely know him as the theorist behind the contemporary art movement he calls “Superflat.”
Partially inspired by the Pop art of Andy Warhol, in which celebrity culture and mundane mass-produced items became the focus of bright and colorful works that both celebrated and criticized consumerism, Murakami’s Superflat encompasses painting, sculpture, digital design and more to present a subversive look at consumerism but is also an effort to blend fine art and lowbrow culture.
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Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami may be famous among collectors for the psychedelic flowers and chaotic cartoons that populate his prints and paintings, but artists likely know him as the theorist behind the contemporary art movement he calls “Superflat.”
Partially inspired by the Pop art of Andy Warhol, in which celebrity culture and mundane mass-produced items became the focus of bright and colorful works that both celebrated and criticized consumerism, Murakami’s Superflat encompasses painting, sculpture, digital design and more to present a subversive look at consumerism but is also an effort to blend fine art and lowbrow culture.
Find Takashi Murakami art for sale on 1stDibs.
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We are the jocular clan - Print, Signed and numbered, 2018
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Paris, FR
TAKASHI MURAKAMI Takashi (born in 1962).
We are the jocular clan, 2018
Woven paper, four-color offset printing, glossy varnish
Signed with pen by th...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Takashi Murakami Melting DOB New/sealed (Takashi Murakami DOB)
By Takashi Murakami
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Takashi Murakami Melting DOB, 2021:
Takashi Murakami's signature DOB figure new/unopened in its original packaging. A standout Murakami limited edition collector's piece, rarely presented new/sealed in its original factory box.
Medium: Painted cast vinyl figure with metallic disk stand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
Doraemon and Friends Under the Blue Sky
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Bristol, GB
Offset lithograph
Edition of 300
Signed and numbered on the front
Mint, as issued
Sold in the original Kaikai Kiki box
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Murakami print - Kansei : The Golden Age
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is an offset print, limited edition out of an edition of 300, signed and numbered by Artist.
Enjoy video of the unwrapping of this brand new print at our Los Angeles framer! This print is now sold framed, in Los Angeles, CA.
"Kansei : The Golden Age"
潤声 ゴールデンエイジ
4c offset w/cold stamp + spot varnishing
オフセット印刷4色+箔+厚盛ニス
Diameter: 710 mm / 28 in.
Framed: approx 34 x 34 x 2 in.
Edition 300
Signed and numbered: edition 118 of 300
Made in Japan
Pristine condition, brand new, framed in Los Angeles, California
Seller in Los Angeles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Warhol - Silver. Limited Edition (print) by Murakami signed and numbered
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Warhol - Silver (2012) by Takashi Murakami
Offset print, cold foil stamp, glossy varnish
Hand signed and numbered by the artist
Published by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo
28 in diamet...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Dazzling Circus: Embrace Peace and Darkness within thy Heart
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Austin, TX
Offset lithograph in colors, on smooth wove paper, the full sheet
Edition 108 of 300
Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd., Tokyo
Hand Signed on lower right recto
Category
2010s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph