Was just catching up on my Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei and caught this little clip:
…Could this be a reference to pop artist showing at the Brooklyn Museum in New York at the moment? (Okay, this episode aired on March 8th, almost a month prior to the exhibit opening, but Murakami has shown in NYC in the past, too…)
Hmm…
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April 14th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
thats a reference for sure.
April 14th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I saw this Murakami exhibit at Japan Foundation 3 years ago. Maybe?
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Boy-Japans-Exploding-Subculture/dp/0300102852/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208224445&sr=8-1
April 14th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I think it might be referencing this piece of art I found on his website…
http://www.takashimurakami.com/images/art/murakami5.jpg
April 14th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Looking back now, I’m not too sure if that’s really the one they’re parodying, but here are some other possible art pieces
The eye resembles: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0810967022/ref=nosim/theartcyclopedia
and the face resembles
the man himself, Murakami
http://www.takashimurakami.com/takashi_photo.jpg
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:18 pm
[...] TIME has offered up its fifth annual list of the 100 Most Influential People, and who should appear at #78 but artist/Kanye collaborator Takashi Murakami? I have to say, he looks REALLY dorky in a bow tie, for all that his art is fantastic (regardless of what Zetsubou-sensei says). [...]