Friday, April 25, 2008
Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum
So I recently went to the Brooklyn Museum to see the Murakami show. I liked it surprisingly. It must have been the bright modern colors that did it. I have never been a fan of anime or of Louis Vuitton either. It's my own personal taste. I could put that aside though and really appreciate some of the pieces. Walking into the first room with a large installation of an anime figure suspended from the ceiling and louis vuitton monograms on large panals, I instantly thought of pop art and Andy Warhol. But everything was so pristinely executed that I also felt a particular fine art aesthetic. There was a point of view that was more than commercialism. Certain rooms made me feel like a child and others were anything but childlike. Everything was executed carefully and considerably. I liked that, the care and attention to detail. Then I thought of Elsworth Kelly and how there is a painstaking attention to detail in his solid color panels. I also really enjoyed the wallpaper patterns. The show went on forever covering, if I can remeber correctly, three floors! It was really overall a must-see in my opinion.
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