Superflat
Superflat is an art movement that was founded by postmodernist Takashi Murakami. This movement found inspiration in anime and seeks to comment on post-war Japanese culture, criticizing the “otaku lifestyle, consumerism, and related issues”. Superflat emerged as a response to the homogenization of Japanese art and media and its broad nature allows it to encompass a wide range of subjects.
Artist
Mahomi Kunikata is an artist who uses the narrative qualities of Japanese comics as a means of creating deep, insightful, original works of art. Kunikata’s work is emotional and sexual often reflecting personal issues such as abandonment, masochism, and depression.
Book
To demonstrate superflat in my book I took inspiration from examples I found with women posed in front of animated backgrounds. I cut one of the models out of the magazine and pasted the cutout on a page that I decorated in a similar colorful, animated, manner.
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