Takeshi Murakami is Andy Warhol of Japanese Pop Art. His series of pattern/print for Louis Vuitton with Marc Jacob in 2003 merged low and high art, commodity and value in a way that Warhol would never have imagined. Those patterns, as some of you may have seen, were applied to LV’s handbag and luggage collection in replacement of the boring gold and brown monogram (which I still can’t understand why it is such the big deal). Murakami’s approach is the best of both worlds: being playful and humorous while critical of popular culture, even better, making huge profit on creating seemingly kitsch art. Remind you of any architect? Not many.
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