Takashi Murakami is a Japanese artist that was born in Itabashi City in Tokyo, Japan. He was born in 1962 and is currently 60 years old. His influences include traditional Japanese paintings, sci-fi, anime, and the global art market. His work embodies pop culture, hisotry, and fine art as it is bright colors and eye catching imagry to draw in a large, worldwide audience.
"We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don’t completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art." —Takashi Murakami
