Kawaii! summer holidays

Kawaii! Summer holidays is a work of Takashi Murakami, 2002

Acrylic resin on fabric strengthened on panel 300x900x7

The reason for the Fleur S appears much in the work of Murakami. The first were born at the time of its entrance examination at the university of the fine arts for the section nihon-ga* whose examination related to these drawings of flowers. Then during nine years, he taught with the pupils of a preparatory school to draw them. “I must frankly say that at the beginning I did not like the flowers: in spite of their perfume, their form, all that gave me almost nausea, I found them increasingly nice: each one seemed to have its feelings, its personality. However in me a feeling of faintness prevailed, and it is precisely that which made me appreciate the flowers more and more. I draw some very frequently, this feeling returned to me with force: this same force produced by an human face when one undertakes to draw it. ” Its paintings of flowers seem to reveal them as in a scene of crowd moving, threatening and which approaches. Often developed into polyptic, the fabrics of Murakami also formally evoke old paintings of folding screens. The artist thus joined an essential aspect of traditional Japanese art: the taste of decorative which answers a celebration of the life and the awakening of the fugacity of the things.

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