this costs $15 million
Still amazing.
Jelly as fuck desu
>>2576784
>you will never be rich and famous for making a ridiculous anime sculpture jizzing his own body weight in cum
Humans are stupid, I know.
I would buy it in a heartbeat
>>2576784
It's pretty amazing sculpture and Takashi Murakami is very good, profilic artist, one of the best if it comes to contemporary art.
>>2576792
look at the fucking feet
>>2576819
Stylization, see nothing wrong especially when in sculpture focus is directed elsewhere.
For a second, I thought those ceiling lights were part of the jizz. -- "How did they do that?"
>>2576784
Fuck yourself
https://shape-and-colour.com/2008/05/16/murakamis-my-lonesome-cowboy-15-million/
It's shit
>>2576784
Truly the pinnacle of the nipplenese art world
>>2576827
No, sorry. That's just being lazy. Compare with hands.
>>2576876
I tell you - it's deliberate, you see it in sculpture but maybe it's easier to see on paintings where often artists leave areas out of focus with much less detail than areas where they want you to look at.
>>2576784
You have to understand that the worth of the dollar is extremely relative.
$15 million is an insane amount of money for you and me, but to a multi-millionaire that's chump change.
The reason you can't sell your art for millions is because you don't have the same amount of acclaim that Murakami has.
Just because something is "worth" millions doesn't mean it's actually worth millions, and even then can you really be the one to say "this is worth this much, and that is worth that much." It's just what the rich decide it's worth because they're the one with the money, not you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PiqC-vfYLw
>>2576912
Source?
nothing wrong here,murakami is good and more interesting than lets say jeff koonz. Lonesome Cowboy is the perfect sculpture that encapsulates 90's japan.
>>2576923
Musaigen no Phantom World
It's nice to look at but it's pretty meh outside of that.
I love the colors though, I have a fetish for colored lines.
>>2576784
Go read a book retard. Also, stop caring about what other people do with their money.
>>2576937
>Also, stop caring about what other people do with their money.
This, life has gotten much easier when I understood that dumb people do dumb things with their money.
>>2576792
Yeah definately worth some money.
>ITT: People caring too much about what rich idiots do with their money.
Great thread guys.
>>2576812
Does anybody know murakami's medium? Is this oil on canvas? Acrylics? My google fu has failed me in this...
>>2576784
still better than what 80% of /ic/ can do
>>2576932
>it will look good with lots of cute girls on stage.
when in doubt, just add more cute girls, a think to remember for my art
>>2576784
I remember in art class where there was a book with this in it and a model of an anime girl lactating the same amount from her giant breasts.
Good times.
>>2576784
What's the point of this? It just look like SSJ Teen Gohan happily wanking
>>2576912
You are right about money and a sense of scale in spending it. A few more zeros in the paycheck equals a few more zeros in what I would call Casual Spending.
I attended a craft show last weekend,and what I saw was eye opening. In this pic are candle holders made from antique toys and doll parts. The artist would scour e-bay for materials and assemble them with either wax candles or electric fixtures in mind,and sell them for 3-500 bucks a pop! And he mentioned that certain chain stores would buy lots of 100 from him and mark them up even further. Another guy would track down authentic album covers and make handbags out of them and sell them from 250-350 each. He mentioned that "stars" would ramble into booths of his and buy a bunch at a time,and I believed him. Neither candle holders or handbags would be things *I* would want,but I am sure they have a demand from people with enough cash to indulge themselves.
But 15 million for DragonBall Jizz?
I'd like to see the one who bought it. Sounds like an exhibit in themselves...
Who cares? Its weird and interesting. Why does everyone on this thread constantly bitch about the art industry. Its the same lame argument made in music; "theres so many talented musicians out there that don't get recognition but the stupid talentless ones do! boo hoo!".... Why not instead of being a special snowflake that appreciates "real art", maybe "dumb" yourself down a little and you might learn something; at least the ability to not let stuff like this bother you and be somewhat normal.
As well it should
>>2578616
>Its weird and interesting.
How? It's just a typical animu figure scaled up.
>>2578598
dragon ball jizz for $15 million is still more reasonable than 500 for this garbage
cool
>>2576784
Picture this. Aunt and sister invite me with their children to go to Brooklyn Museum to see this exhibition. Very innocent cute anime flowers highly chromatic graphic colors. A couple furry girls walking around no big deal. Every body is enjoying the pictures the designs we turn right, we turn left. Walk around a partition all of a sudden.... this statue popping jizz in your face scarring your children for life.
... seriously fucked up pham. Everybody clammed up.
>>2577467
Do the 20% who do better make 15m$ per large art work?
never seen more dynamic jizz in my whole life.
Would totally put this in my huge billionaire living room
>>2576784
Yes, 15mil isn't much money under the circumstances like the other anons said. That's because this is an investment. Murakami's value will almost certainly increase over time due to his gallery representation increasing. Even more so post mortem. So this sculpture was bought for 15mil, but it won't sell for any less.
All you really need is one good artwork to get critical acclaim, then you can shit out whatever and people will be tripping over themselves to justify why it's deep. Like that guy who made those fake banksy paintings.
Murakami is a straight up troll. People don't read his actual thoughts and assume his work or the work of his friends is a "biting denouncement of tasteless objectifying anime" or w/e when in reality a lot of the people working for him are completely unironic otaku perverts. A guy who says he's into lolicon to "live out his fantasies without harming anyone", a guy who's a 'sexy anime girls' figure sculptor, etc.
His entire point is that there shouldn't be a barried between "low art" and "high art" and he tends to give jobs to (the aforementioned guys) or simply feature the art of (animators like Yoshinori Kanada) people whose work is considered "low brow" to make a point about the art world being (his wording, not mine) "pretentious"
He does have some weird conflicting nationalisty thoughst about the "infantilization of japanese culture" post-war but despite this he has a genuine respect for the nerd culture-approved artists he showcases and sees Kanada's animation for example as a natural evolution of classic Japanese art.
I actually talked to the guy who curated his first art show in the west whose writing talked about the "possibility" that he's saying "otaku shit is immoral and wrong" and he admitted that in retrospect he was completely wrong. But most other rich people are still falling for what he's doing hook line and sinker.
Basically what he does is trick rich people who think anime is degenerate trash into buying super-expensive versions of mass-produced otaku figures of large boobed huge assed anime and video game girls and that is fucking hysterical to me.
>>2582435
Also he's worked with the creator of fucking Eiken and is friends with the guy. He's tricked Britney Spears into cosplaying as a character from a lolicon ecchi manga by that guy to subtly protest against the anti-lolicon law suggested in 2011 without telling her the source of the illustrations she was copying. Then after she did the photoshoot he admitted it and said his stance on the issue (basically "all of it should be protected by the law as art")
>>2580540
kek
>>2577459
made digitally in Illustrator, then meticulously screenprinted onto canvas, with multiple sandpaper passes (done by his team not himself)
>>2580756
He drew the graduation cover.....
>>2582435
>>2582440
Sounds like a cool guy.
![takashi-murakami-x-britney-spears-for-pop-magazine-1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/iQu3IPl.jpg "takashi-murakami-x-britney-spears-for-pop-magazine-1[1].jpg")
>>2582440
>>2582496
>>2583195
ayo man what the heck
>>2576784
da fuck
>>2584049
Read the thread, dummy.
>>2583453
*teleports behind murakami*
heh, kys otaku
*unzip laserpointer*
nothin' persone-
*taps into inner soul of murakami
*put laserpointer in its bachsheat*
*upzips newfound respect*
*bows gracefully*
nice
>>2583453
Real life is fun after all
My friend worked for Murakami and said he's an asshole. He wouldn't elaborate, but it's not like it's surprising.
>>2578750
That's the point. It's making fun of anime and paying tribute to it at the same time.
every day we move further from god's light
>>2586386
>every day we DRIFT* further from god's light
its an investment, some rich asshole buys it then resells it or uses it as a prop for conventions or something. they're not putting in their mangaka cabinet.
$15 million for that weak ass nut? Pussy shit
