SUPERFLAT

Conceived by now world famous, once an otaku, Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, Supeflat is a postmodernist movement that is essentially "pop art". In 2001, Murakami first flocked a handful of contemporary Japanese artists and introduced them into the Western world by curating an exhibition and publishing a manifesto under the title Superflat. According to Murakami, Japan's consumer culture and the role of the arts within are one of a kind in the world today that can only be ascribed to the landscape of postwar Japan. With Superflat Murakami stresses the lack of distinction between fine art and commercial art in Japan, and as a result is the Superflat aesthetic in the contemporary Japanese art which he believes to be a manifestation of "shallow emptiness of Japanese consumer culture".

Here are some of the artists:

Mr.

Hiromix(this person is in Lost in Translation when Bill Murry is taking Polaroids of Scarlett Johansson and her)



Aya Takano

Yoshitomo Nara