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Art Meets Popular Culture Study Of Superflat Art

Posted on:2016-04-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Q DengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330467957389Subject:Fine Arts
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The characteristics of art appears repeatedly in the past hundred years is ablurring of the boundaries between art and other cultural, the boundaries betweencontemporary art and life, popular culture is continued in multiple direction. Superflat art is contemporary art and popular culture, popular entertainment andcommercial product of marriage.Super flat is super flat, no depth."Super flat" is a famous Japanese artist takashimurakami in the United States in2000launched a movement of his works in as thetypical complanation, symbolization, cartoon, this is the summary of thecharacteristics of the Japanese anime modelling of two-dimensional plane, is also onthe depth of Japan’s lack of mass culture phenomenon of profound analysis. In Mr.Murakami’s view, Japan is different from western art and culture, and vice versa, andJapan as the eastern and western culture, itself has the diversity and the mass, thesewere takashi murakami as Japan’s art essence, namely the super flat.This article embarks from the takashi murakami’s works to illustrate the ultra flatartistic characteristics, the cartoon character and the penetration of Japanese culturalbackground, and the consumption culture in the current capitalism under theedification of the turning of the contemporary art. Takashi murakami and luxuryfashion brand cooperation, opening the history of the cartoon and fashion ofcooperation, but also broke the "art of art has nothing to do with the money, is a purecreation" the art of myth.Takashi murakami believes that Japan’s unique artistic style which is formed bythe edo period (float world draw, etc.) with the Japanese comic and cartoon has closerelation with the heat. Since the Meiji era, world art center to New York, Japanese arthas also been accepted "western art system". He super flat as Japan’s traditional arts, to fight the "western art system" in Japan after world war ii, the antagonism is to caterto the western postmodernism "to center and the hierarchization", by takashimurakami to undertake the edo period of Japanese pop culture and traditional art, it isin its popular and yan mei was called is in the west by western modernism that existedbefore the postmodernism, which has received recognition in the west. It seems thatthe super flat concept art is both in the west, and Japan.The purpose of this article is for the purpose of through the analysis of the superflat case of takashi murakami, reveals the contemporary art in the context ofglobalization of the ideology behind the steering, but also for the Chinesecontemporary art in the context of globalization how to reconstruct their own culturalprivileges.
Keywords/Search Tags:Murakami Takashi, Superflat art, Art rules, Postmodernity, Globalization
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