Kaikaikiki Pink: Takashi Murakami

16 Postcards of various Murakami art work. Each postcard represents his artwork with the following names: Cassiopeia, Green Flower, DOB.G.P., N-CHa!!, Jizo-Buddas Sutatur, GENKI Ball, Konnitiwa, Red Rope, Pink Skereton, Yupi with Moss Flower, Pink Summer, DOB, Summer Festival, Mushrooms, Totempole, and Blue Eyes

The tantalizing sculptures and brilliantly colored paintings of Takashi Murakami (born in 1962) reveal the artist's enthusiasm for seemingly disparate interests. His attraction to contemporary popular culture, especially anime (animation) and manga (cartoon), also reveals his great love of drawing, first discovered in his youth. As a university student, he studied traditional Japanese painting and earned a degree in nihon-ga, a sophisticated style that developed in nineteenth-century Japan as a synthesis of influences, including Chinese and Western art forms. Murakami has thoughtfully integrated each without diminishing the significance of - or his respect for - either. Most important to his work is his desire to acknowledge his identity as an artist of Japan.

Dimensions: 4"x6" (inches)
Quantity: 16 postcards
Languages: English, Japanese