silversaltfilms (August 13, 2008 at 4:48 pm)

makes sense ...

falrapax (August 4, 2008 at 4:12 am)

First of all, your attempt at propagandizing by making cute little name combos (See: Dumbocrats, Repukelicans) make what you say less credible. I hope you understand that. Second of all, you have twice now confused the 'message' of Superflat with Japanese avant garde and/or popular art in general, which suggests ignorance. You clearly don't know ukiyo-e history. Have a dash of Wikipedia, unless that's not credible enough for you (and that would be a lame excuse).

falrapax (August 4, 2008 at 4:08 am)

First of all, your attempt at propagandizing by making cute little name combos (See: Dumbocrats, Repukelicans) make what you say less credible. I hope you understand that. Second of all, you have twice now confused the 'message' of Superflat with Japanese avant garde and/or popular art in general, which suggests ignorance. You clearly don't know ukiyo-e history. Have a dash of Wikipedia, unless that's not credible enough for you (and that would be a lame excuse).

friendsofthefruitsof (July 28, 2008 at 9:15 am)

the Ukioe Artists were actually artists and not opportunists. Murakostabi (Murakami Mark Kostabi) keepson claiming he speaks for The Japanese. Besides this moment came 40 years before, See Keiichi Tanaami, Tandanori Yokoo and Sanrio. Come on give it a break and see what is really happening here. Yoshotomo Toothpaste and Murakostabi are pretty much irrelevant here, they just sell to the Gaijin as "exotica."

falrapax (July 25, 2008 at 11:31 pm)

ukiyo-e is an example of that 'low art': mass-produced art created specifically for consumption and profit. noone said superflat and kaikai kiki were the be-all and end-all of contemporary japanese art (at least I didn't). but it is also not a meaningless or irrelevant facet of japanese art, neither of the last decade nor this one. considering the enormous cultural prevalence of anime and the like in post-WWII Japan, an artistic movement like Superflat was practically inevitable.

pipppin3 (July 4, 2008 at 6:37 pm)

Subject interesting, BUT I HATE ROSS the fat cat Beeb luvvie .

friendsofthefruitsof (July 1, 2008 at 11:00 am)

low art ironic hahahahahahahahha, hey i have a few LDP pork barrel projects to sell you.

friendsofthefruitsof (July 1, 2008 at 11:00 am)

someone ought to check the footnotes and question that murakostabi pretends he is the Voice of Japan and 90's Japanese art. Artists here have moved on and these 2 fellas are dasai old hat and so last decade. Japan actually has ideas and some quality art.

friendsofthefruitsof (July 1, 2008 at 10:58 am)

it is toothpaste BTW

falrapax (July 1, 2008 at 4:02 am)

well I'm not sure where exactly you read that about superflat. What I've read from Takahashi Murakami and other superflat artists/aupporters does indeed suggest a glorification of the superficial, but the idea is to create art acceptable as high art still done in a style appealing to the masses: just as Japanese art such as ukiyo-e did before western influence. It is meant to be a criticism/celebration of post-WWII Japanese 'low' art, re-molded into a uniquely Japanese-informed 'high' art.