Takashi Murakami

Haruki Murakami was born in 1949 in Kyoto, a city in Japan. He lived his life in a time and place, where traditions had absolute influence on people and were very highly valued. This inspired him when he was writing his stories. For influence, he had to read Western literature. In his works, Haruki Murakami shows that he supports the idea of more freedom against traditions, but still presents the risks of choosing not to follow them.

Around the age of six years old, Hokusai began painting and even spent time as an apprentice wood-carver in his youth. He began the art of print making when he was eighteen. His most famous painting, The Great Wave, can be seen in museums all over the world even though Japan delayed it from catching on worldwide. Many believe that it was painted in the early 1800s, but Japan was not interacting culturally with other countries apart from trade with China and Korea. It wasn’t until 1859 when the Japanese were forced to open their ports that prints of The Wave spread across Europe. Originally, this piece wasn’t viewed as real art by Japanese politicians and art historians. Wood-block printing was used for commercial use and as a popular form of expression. The Japanese government wasn’t too thrilled “that such a seemingly lowbrow art form had come to define them” (15 Things). About five thousand to eight thousand prints were made but it is speculated that only a few hundreds of The Great Wave remain. The painting actually inspired music like Debussy’s La Mer.

Edvard Munch is regarded as the pioneer of the Expressionist movement in modern painting. At an early stage Munch was recognised in Germany and central Europe as one of the creators of a new and different movement of art, that helped artists to express their feelings about all the social change that was happening around them.

Contrary to the article’s title, Netflix is not the cause of the cultural echo chamber. It is hardly even a symptom. Our proclivity for personalized selection on Netflix is moreso indicative of egocentrism and the simple fact that people have different interests. What Farhad Manjoo suggests in this article is that the digital age has isolated us in our thought processes, but that is not the case. We have chosen to isolate ourselves.

Yasumasa Morimura is an internationally respected and controversial Japanese artist who through his art, represents social changes in Japanese culture, such as Western influences, politics and gender values. Morimura explores how Japan interacts with the World through the lens of the artist and how the artist creates an identity within his culture and the global community.

During the Great Depression many people were left with nothing after the market crash. In “The Nations Asks, “Is it to Be Murder, Mr. Hoover?” argues why the states are getting relief but the people are starving in the streets. The author complaints of the lack of responsibilities the government has throwers the people by saying “lack of food and undernourishment must be charge up against the government of the United States” (195). During WWII many Japanese resident that were located in the west coast were force out of there house because of fear. In the source “Dissent in Korematsu v. United States” the author shares the court case of Fred Korematsu the violation of his rights as an American. Korematsu was arrested for refusing to leave his

On October 18th, 2017 the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston opened up an exhibition of contemporary works by Takashi Murakami, called "Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics" it is one of the most imaginative exhibitions out today. The new modern works are juxtaposed with traditional pieces from the Museum of Fine Arts established collection of Japanese art. The exhibition shows the viewer how Murakami’s contemporary works has taken reference from the bountiful and dynamic art of the historical past. The exhibition includes, paintings and sculpture created by the Murakami in direct response to Japanese pieces from the Museum of Fine Arts collection.

In this essay, I am critiquing the article “In the name of love” by Miya Tokumitsu. I will be using style. Tokumitsu uses style to help the audience to think about how certain things mean to them and how you must find what you like to do in life. The authority is shown throughout the article by talking about how risky it is to find out what you love and to do it. I will also be using coverage. Tokumitsu shows a great use of coverage by telling in the article about doing what you love.

Post-war Japanese society is a world where High and Low art is blurred together by otaku, such as anime, and social class. However, Takashi Murakami straddles the line. Murakami spills a mix of Nihanga and Otaku into the canvases, plastic toys, handbags, shoes, etc; endorsing his own theory/style named “Superflat”. Using strategical subject matter such as popular Japanese comic figures combined with ukiyo-e(traditional Japanese block prints), and addressing these contrasting qualities to outside cultures; Murakami intensifies what Pop Art accomplished, art versus material. On other feelings, one could argue that “Superflat” isn’t a unique, Japan-identified style, that “Superflat” is a humiliation to the Contemporary Art world because of its commercialism. Lastly, that is a continuation of the already well developed Pop Art. On the supporting side, Murakami’s “Superflat” is a high-energy, cross-culture style that serves as a new way to represent the high and low of art that is considerably unique to Japan. To support this, Murakami’s past and present artwork will have to be established chronologically to illustrate how the timeline affects his work.

Around the turn of the century many artists were trying to lay the foundation for modern art. In the 1880’s and 1890’s Art Nouveau, an international style of decoration and architecture urbanized. New developments also included, Post Impressionism, which “rejected the objective naturalism of impressionism and used form and color in more personally expressive ways.” At the time Romanticism, a growing artistic movement, was popular to artists like Runge, Goya, Blake and Friedrick, all who inspired Munch during the various stages of his artistic life. However, when compared to other artists of the time, Munch was new and ingenious. Able too courageously and dispassionately “reveal his innermost secrets of his own life,

Born in 1907, Bruno Munari was and not only considered an Italian modernist but also a futurist. He ventured into many different fields of art such as graphic, painting, sculpturing to industrial design. He also was a theoretician and author publishing children's books and his poetry. ¬¬ Throughout the entire twentieth-century his work as captivated many people and grew, let alone Picasso himself mentioned him as "the new Leonardo."

The both Higuchi Ichiyo and Hayashi Fumiko are remarkable and succeeded women author in modern Japanese literate. They lived different time and express their ideology with different writing style, but the skillful authors had a passion toward writing to the show their thought to carefully choose details, including the writing style, to maximize character’s personality in common. Higuchi Ichiyo and Hayashi Fumiko intentionally construct to establish a coherent image of the story protagonist’ personalities using writing style. Higuchi Ichiyo uses Pseudo Classic Japanese which is mixed classic Japanese and daily language to make connection between protagonist’s obedient character and atmosphere of “The Thirteenth Night”. Also, Hayashi Fumiko

Almost instantaneously recognizable, The Great Wave off Kanagawa (woodblock, 10 1/8 x 14 15/16 in, c. 1830-32), created by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai in 1830, beautifully captures the graceful, swelling movement of a crashing tsunami. Because of the way in which line and proportion are utilized, this woodblock print gracefully portrays the sheer power of the ocean. Derived from the Edo period in nineteenth century Japan, this classic was the first of a series of works from Hokusai titled Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji, all of which effortlessly depict the mountain in a wide array of angles and scenery. Arguably, The Great Wave off Kanagawa is the most iconic and cherished piece of Japanese artwork in the world. Even more importantly, Hokusai is considered prominent father figure for both Japanese art, as well as Western modernization as a whole. The Great Wave truly displays how tiny and weak man is compared to the force of nature. Not only is The Great Wave a quintessential piece of art, but it established a piece in the comprehensive networks of art, trade, and politics, that has instilled a tremendous positive impact on the twenty first century.

Edvard Munch is regarded as a pioneer in the Expressionist movement in modern painting. At an early stage Munch was recognized in Germany and central Europe as one of the creators of a new movement in art. Munch and many artists of the time needed to express their feelings about all the change that was happening around.

Many authors like to write fantasy novels, stories that detached themselves from reality, novels that tell us about magic, parallel dimensions, between others. But even in these fictional stories there is still the presence of the universal themes that can be touched not only in this kind of novels but also in the simpler ones, themes like the fight between good and evil, love, between others.