Takashi Murakami: Flower Sparkles!
Artwork © 2021 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved
Flower Sparkles! is a limited-edition print featuring Takashi Murakami’s distinctive multicolored smiling flower motif, which first appeared in his practice in 1995. A graphic floral outline is filled with multiple smaller versions of the same design, with each petal dedicated to a different hue of a gradated rainbow spectrum surrounding the central visage. The resultant image resonates with Murakami’s renowned “Superflat” aesthetic, in which he combines classical Japanese painting techniques with contemporary popular imagery on a flat picture plane, often also making use of graphic devices from the interconnected cultures of anime, manga, otaku, and kawaii.
Artist: Takashi Murakami
Date: 2021
Medium: Archival pigment print and silkscreen on paper
Dimensions: 19 3/4 × 19 3/4 inches (50 × 50 cm)
Edition: Edition of 100 + 25 AP
Signed: Signed, numbered, and dated on recto
Printer: Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
Publisher: Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
Framed: Sold unframed
