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About the artwork
Takashi Murakami’s flowers fascination with flowers began when he worked as a school teacher in the 1980s. Every other day, the artist would buy fresh blooms for his students to practice drawing, and eventually he found himself enchanted by the individual personalities of flowers. Murakami’s flowers are celebrated for their display of joy and innocence, and are now his most recognizable motif, having been featured everywhere from the Versailles Palace to Vans sneakers. The beaming smiles of the flowers and its bright colour palette in this work are uplifting, and it is a delightful example of the joy that nature can bring to the viewer. The vapour trail in the distance creates a unique sense of depth in this work, that is otherwise rendered with two-dimensionality.
About the artist
Takashi Murakami was born in 1962 in Tokyo and is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist of international renown. Working with fine art mediums (painting and sculpture) as well as conventional commercial mediums (fashion,
merchandise, and animation), the artist is known for blurring the line between high
and low art. He coined his style 'superflat', which describes the aesthetic
characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of post-war Japanese culture and society. Murakami’s works have been exhibited all
over the world, including prestigious institutions such as the Guggenheim
Museum in Bilbao, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Fondation Cartier pour
l'art Contemporain, Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.