Talk:Takashi Murakami

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Ew, did he really make those mangas? 68.95.141.158 03:58, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Not to make a fuss, but this article reads more like a magazine article about Murakami than an encyclopedia article. It also is way too fawning, but that seems to me a lesser concern. For example, the grand pronouncements about trends in art history ("Social commentary is nothing new"), rhetorical questioning ("So what makes Takashi Murakami different from his predecessors, like Andy Warhol?"), and interpretation of his work ("clearly critiques on westernization".) Even the descriptions of his paintings sound more suited to a breezy newspaper review than a straight-up description of his work ("the Superflat style is really obvious here"). The timeline is copied part-and-parcel from his company's website, which, however one credits it, seems like a pretty clear no-no. A top-to-bottom rewrite is probably in order, and I'm sure as hell not going to do it. 69.136.86.237 22:09, 10 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, I wonder if someone could explain what it is that makes "Hiropon" and "My Lonesome Cowboy" critiques of westernization. If anything, they seem almost transhumanist in depicting novel transformations of the human body; although art from its very beginnings has depicted bizarre, grotesque, and amazing modifications of human biology beyond its natural range. Mporter 03:32, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * This article is awful. Unencyclopedic, problems with tense agreement, praising tone, unnecessary information. Is the average reader going to care about Murakami's "hundreds of pocket sketchbooks" or that he uses Adobe Illustrator? And with the odd noun usage and marketing language, some of the sentences look like they've been lifted directly from a company brochure (i.e. "Kaikai Kiki is not only involved with how can we best make a piece of art with high quality and concept, but with a system of checks and balances, supply and demand."). 69.142.79.134 01:00, 11 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm working on a draft "top-to-bottom rewrite" of this page using published, scholarly sources. I hope to copy it across/fix this page up by the end of June 2007. I would appreciate your opinions at that time... Platinumbuddha 07:36, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

The Register Of The Tagged Section Isn't Very Encyclopedic.
Somepeople say style, but it's the linguistic definition I'm using.100110100 10:20, 27 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Pardon me. I've noticed that I tagged just one section before; I've come across another sentence that could be changed.  I'm not going to read the whole article, so I've tagged the whole article.100110100 10:25, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Uh...the picture on the top of the page...
It seems a little innapropriate...I mean, that's a...

its an example of his work. i think it fits. Evaunit666 01:39, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

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Poku?
Isn't the "pop" in poku likely rather derived from pop art, than pop music? 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 13:16, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Hiropon
Having finally discovered what hiropon means (it's the Japanese pronunciation of Philopon, a brand name for a certain type of methamphetamines popular in early post-war Japan), I am curious if anyone has any sources on why Murakami named his "Hiropon Factory" and several works after it. I've never seen any explanation or discussion of the subject... and if we can find some, it'd be great to include in the article. LordAmeth (talk) 19:01, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Does he run http://www.anime.marumegane.com?
At Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga, we're trying to figure out if the page, as it claims, is run by Takashi Murakami. Can anyone here confirm that? -- Goodraise (talk) 18:42, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Context
Hiroki Azuma "...On the other hand, although he is not at the center of our conversation today, there is a man who is famous for using the word “otaku” in the United States: Takashi Murakami. I have been interviewed a few times about him… DM: Takashi Murakami, the painter and installation artist who had a big exhibition here earlier. HA: Yes- Takashi Murakami is highly successful in the U.S., and he has used “otaku” as a key word. I have been interviewed a few times by the foreign press, and I’ve always told them: I want people to know that the Japanese otaku think Murakami’s introduction of “otaku” is wrong. Murakami does this on purpose. He doesn’t do this merely for the sake of his own success overseas. He has his own criticisms of the current state of otaku culture, and his own suggestions for its improvement. In this way, his strategic use of the word “otaku” is intricately related to the domestic condition of otaku themselves. ...Dai Satō: To continue on with the story about Mr. Murakami, his works are sold for $6-700,000 (60 million to 70 million yen). Yet there are a great number of model sculptors in Japan who make similar figures. They sell their work for $20 to $30 (2000 yen to 3000 yen), but by simply injecting the word “art,” Murakami can charge much more. It is easy for us (otaku in Japan) to think that Mr. Murakami simply changes everything with the word “otaku.”

http://www.japansociety.org/otaku_unmasked --Gwern (contribs) 05:10 21 January 2012 (GMT)

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Our article says this, but "This piece is Murakami's most expensive piece to date selling for $13,500,000 at Sotheby’s New York auction in 2008" however I have a source that says something sold for $15.1 million. A sculpture called "My Lonesome Cowboy" created in 1998, sold at auction for $15.1 million dollars. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cmp28600 (talk • contribs) 06:02, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

--Jaymurphy25 (talk) 15:18, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

I think for the NFT section, there should be information on his bankruptcy within the pandemic that caused him to try to rush into the NFT world. This section could also include the style of his NFTs and that they are not his original flowers but rather cherry blossoms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaymurphy25 (talk • contribs) 15:01, 12 April 2022 (UTC)