Takashi Murakami (村上 隆, Murakami Takashi, born February 01, 1962) is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts media as well as commercial and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts as well as co aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of postwar Japanese culture and society, and is also used for Murakami’s artistic style and other Japanese artists he has influenced.

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