The wonderful Louisa told me about Takashi Murakami’s exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.

His work is almost too sweet to digest, save for the occasional third eye, strategic drips, odd spacing or other such detail that doesn’t let the observer quite rest into sugary oblivion.

I find his blend of high art, lowbrow and commerce intriguing.

Murakami’s style, called Superflat, is characterized by flat planes of color and graphic images involving a character style derived from anime and manga…Like Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami takes low culture and repackages it, and sells it to the highest bidder in the “high-art” market. Unlike Warhol, Murakami also makes his repacked low culture available to all other markets in the form of paintings, sculptures, videos, T-shirts, key chains, mouse pads, plush dolls, cell phone caddies…(Wiki).

Murakami also teamed up with Louis Vuitton to manufacture some outlandishly priced handbags. I truly hope this was a satiric commentary on the lengths people will go to in order to possess limited edition high fashion items. I will NEVER understand the appeal of labels and logos. I’d love to slap some of my quirky artwork on a designer brand and laugh all the way to the bank. Suckers.