Google Doodle : Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami (村上 隆, Murakami Takashi?, born in Tokyo) is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist who works in both fine arts media—such as painting—as well as digital and commercial media. He blurs the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, "Superflat" paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies.



Japanese hipster-turned-multimillionaire artist Takashi Murakami’s trademark psychedelic flower faces, narcotized eyes, and menacing mouths have been seen in a lot of places: from MOCA inLos Angeles, the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and theGuggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, to the sides of Louis Vuitton handbags and the covers of a Kanye Westalbum. Today, they’ve taking root in cyberspace. Mr. Murakami has contributed the latest so-called Google doodle, a time-specific embellishment of the search engine’s corporate logo meant to commemorate a significant occasion – in this case, the official start of summer 2011.

(via CSMonitor)