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With a flat, two-dimensional pictorial space, Takashi Murakami's work is known for its bold style of incorporating pop culture and subcultures such as Japanese manga and anime.
Behind the strong subcultural image of his work lies the concept of capturing the beauty of Japanese culture through the history of line drawing, a method of expression common to traditional Japanese ukiyoe and contemporary manga and anime.
At the same time, a major appeal of his work is that it questions the shallow emptiness of consumer culture in Japan, blurs the line between high art and low art, and contains not …