. from Tokyo National Museum of Fine Arts and Music, where he learned the art of Nihonga, which is a traditional Japanese painting style used in the 1800's that is a combination of Western and Eastern styles. That evolved into his very untraditional style that he uses today, which he tends to incorporate Japanese anime with sculpture, animation, painting, etc. His works range from his fantastic piece to the right, "Tan Tan Bo Puking - a.k.a. Gero Tan" which reminds me of a psychotic panda bear dipped in ice cream and firing laser beams, to his more....controversial, you could say, sculptures such as, "Hiropon," which is a sculpture of an anime style girl jumping rope with milk that is coming out of her gigantic breasts. I'm not putting that picture on this blog. I read in an interview with Murakami that what he was trying to portray in his art, contrary to the super happy cuteness that it seems to be, is hopelessness. Wow. You wouldn't think that from a picture that reminds one of a psycotic panda bear dipped in ice cram firing laser beams would you? From what I was able to take from the interview, he is displaying the hopelessness that is in Japan from otaku, which are obsessive anime fans. Those people are disliked in society and find comfort in anime and the like. Apparently, his stuff isn't very popular in Japan, and no museums there show his work, however abroad in New York is much different. This is probably because we look at it as a different culture, something that is alien and we want to understand. Personally, I thought people that were into stuff that I think "Hiropon" is trying to convey were just messed up, but from reading his interview, there probably is much more to psychologically understand about fanatics in anime. I think he related them to cults and things similiar to that.
To wrap this up, ..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PFexjG1pq0 .... I kinda wanna a Louis Vuitton bag now.
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