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Today I bring you a little about the life of an Asian artist, last year I published a few Asian artists I even explained how artists from countries like China and Japan have a privileged place in the art world of this era, so this time I bring you a little about the colorful life of Takashi Murakami admired by many and hated by others who say he does not value oriental art, recurrently subjecting his works to a Western aesthetic. Come with me to discover this incredible artist.

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This artist is very complete known for his paintings, sculptures and balloons that fill with many colors and extremely attractive, often use the cartoon as an element for expression, has a broad knowledge of Western art, knowledge that he uses to make his works looking for a kind of integrity between eastern aesthetics and western aesthetics.

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He values and questions the past and the present and popular culture, and at the same time are questioned by the most famous art critics for his relationship with commercial brands such as Louis Vuitton where the weak balance between art and product is bordering on.

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He was born in Tokyo in 1963, a graduate of the National University of Fine Arts and Music of the same city. His work has been exhibited worldwide in prestigious galleries such as Marianne Boesky in New York, the Carter Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris, to name a few of the many galleries. He is also known for a Mr. DOB character who is printed on t-shirts and posters and is part of a lucrative chain of products he owns.

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It is true that in a country that has struggled since the Second World War not to be possessed by Western culture, it is a feat that an artist of these dimensions does nothing more than focus on carrying out intense studies of his own culture.

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It is necessary to emphasize the amount of art arisen from the 2 bombs that the Americans threw in the Japanese territory, like Godzilla, or the fabulous film the tomb of the fireflies, in one way or another there is an anti-war population that has looked for the way to attack their frustrations and feelings found through the art.

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His role as curator-artist has allowed him to question history and culture, a marked post-war history that has allowed him to innovate and carry a political message, so he shows us in his work Little Boy where he interprets history where the conductor thread and the atomic bomb, as well as the inclusion of numerous artists to the art of Japanese caricatures, as an exhibition in Superflat that has gone around the world showing a more pleasant and inclusive side in an art that only the Japanese can do.

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Twice a year he holds the GEISAI festival in Japan for emerging talents, and his company Kaikai Kiki supports and manages a group of young artists. "Becoming a living example of the potential of art" is the driving force behind Takashi Murakami's work.

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So no matter how much conservative circles in Japan try to maintain a status quo of their origins, this artist breaks paradigms by opening up new techniques and sharing that art with other countries around the world, a task worthy of someone who loves his country.