村上隆(日语 村上 隆 平假名 むらかみ たかし 罗马字 Murakami Takashi)，是上世纪60年代以后出生的日本艺术家中**影响力的一位，在日本不仅是一位受到广泛的喜爱的艺术家，也是日本新一代年轻人的偶像。

一九六二年在东京出生。一九九三年，获得东京艺术大学美术系博士学位。在接受了长达十一年的日本传统美术教育之后，他却把那些东西完全抛开，开始了自己个性鲜明的当代艺术创作。 [1]

这个在战后出生，在经济起飞、物资充裕的东京市区长大的艺术家，深受日本动画和漫画的影响。作品形象平面，从表面看来既像玩偶，又像模型玩具，融可爱、性幻想与极端暴力于一体，带有浓浓的卡通漫画色彩，实际却在影射日本文化内涵。作为艺术品，它们又都很难和商业划清界线，既现代又能追溯传统根源，并且人人都能亲近欣赏。每次举办展览，二十出头的叛逆小孩和七老八十的老头老太都是他的观众，没有人站在他的作品前作出百思不得其解的表情，反倒个个看得皆大欢喜。

自从2003年有一幅作品被以六千八百万日元交易以来，他的作品就被形容是“日本人单件艺术作品的史上最高价”。

2008年，他的一座公仔作品，标价5亿日圆，创下同商品的天价纪录。

2008年《时代》杂志评选出的最有影响力的100位人物中，村上隆是**的视觉艺术家。他的作品灵感大多来自日本传统漫画，创作材质珍贵，色彩艳丽，并且常常有性和暴力的展示。

不仅有曾在纽约克里斯蒂拍卖会上拍出了56.7万美元天价的金发卡通美女Ko2小姐（玻璃纤维制，高约2米）；让全世界女性追捧的LV也频频与他合作，装饰有他设计图案的LV手袋，每只售价高达5000美元。Mr. DOB的形象也曾被印在T恤衫和气球上大量发售，成为深受年轻人喜爱的潮流品。

年轻人已经不再仅仅满足也已经不再屑于那些印着唐老鸭或者HelloKitty卡通形象的衣服，他们更欣赏有点神经质的村上隆式色彩和图案大量体现在他们的衣服上。

2010年9月14日-12月12日，村上隆的个人作品回顾展在巴黎凡尔赛宫开展。

2003年，村上隆发表了他的“幼稚力宣言”，充满童稚感的日本潮流文化名正言顺进入西方时尚的中心。早在2000年春夏，村上隆标志性的“眼睛”便已经在三宅一生的男装上眨眼，2003年，他的“熊猫”“樱花”更是在LouisVuitton的皮包上登堂入室。这款系列的CherryBlossom被拥趸们昵称为“樱桃包”，用粉嫩的樱花花瓣和开心笑脸让全世界尤其是亚洲地区的女人们趋之若鹜。LouisVuitton的经典MonogranMulti-color百年来一直是在三色里打转转，而村上隆一气用上几十种颜色，将原来LouisVuitton成熟经典甚至有点老气的形象瞬间转换成缤纷与轻盈。限量发售的EyeLoveMonogram系列沿用了最有村上隆符号感的“眼睛”，发售过后这4年里，仍然广受追捧。

就在“幼稚力宣言”发表的同时，中国有一本《童年的消逝》也非常畅销。这实际上是本很正经的学术书，作者尼尔·波兹曼曾著有广有影响力的《娱乐至死》。在《童年的消逝》里，他研究了媒介技术的发展历史，发现原本通过印刷术和阅读能力而建立起来的成人与儿童的分界线，正在电视的猛烈攻击下越来越模糊，电视把成年人的秘密和暴力转化为娱乐，比如孩子们最爱看的卡通往往不是小蝌蚪找妈妈式的田园牧歌，而是像变形金刚、圣斗士那样充满暴力的传奇故事。像蜡笔小新这样的日本漫画，最有娱乐感的正是小新的“下作”。

与此同时，尼尔·波兹曼还发现，在儿童成人化之时，成人却也日益儿童化，电视新闻和广告的智力水平只不过相当于一个10岁孩子。这些学术的预言，似乎更加有应验的可能。

他迅速走红日本，成为“新普普”的佼佼者，作品频频在西方主流媒体诸如《纽约时报》上露面。他创作的漫画人物KaiKai和KiKi不仅在日本大受欢迎，当他在美国洛杉矶当代艺术馆、西雅图Henry Art Gallery作Superflat巡回展览时，同样引起巨大反响。作品的畅销为他赢来了巨大的声誉，被称作当今“国际上最热门，同时也是最具争议性的艺术家之一”。

精力旺盛的他还是日本青年艺术家团体“HIROPON工厂”的创建者与管理者，他喜欢身边有大群的助手簇拥着，喜欢以工厂而不是个人工作室的方式进行创作。在他的工厂里，全都是年轻的艺术家和训练有素的技师。另外他还成立了自己的公司KAIKAIKIKI，同时进行创作、策划展览、艺术品交易等工作。不过他的工作室看起来很不起眼，外观平凡、朴实，如一般日本农民的住屋一般。

他不但创造出了在西方人眼中怪异有趣的形象，还创立了他自己称为“超平(Superflat）”的风格和理论，并用同样名为Superflat的展览和画册展示着他这一独特风格的各个方面——包括卡通绘画、半精简式的雕塑、巨大且可充气的气球、手表T恤等产品设计、装置艺术和动画。在他的这些产品或作品上，常常会出现一个长着两只大耳朵，外表可爱却面目狰狞的“DOB先生（Mr.DOB）”，这个虚构的人物有如他的签名一般。

DOB先生又名眨眼先生，村上隆曾这样解释DOB的由来，“我常常在思考艺术的文脉，这些思考，让我有了这张变换自如的脸。现代艺术那些屹立不倒的大师们，例如塞尚、杜尚、毕加索、沃霍尔以及冈本太郎，为什么他们的作品在数十年后仍然有那么旺盛的生命力？我们所熟知的米老鼠、机器猫，还有Hello Kitty的形象，他们在市场上的‘生存秘诀’或者说‘普遍性’又是什么呢？——其实我当初做‘DOB计划’就是为了要探询这些问题。而如今，这个计划倒更多地像是我的自画像了。”

DOB实际上是村上隆将一个日本漫画人物的口头禅与日本方言糅合在一起生造出来的词，原意可以译为“为什么”。它综合了米老鼠与日本漫画的形象特点，两只大耳朵上面分别写着字母D与B，脑袋正好是一个O。它有各种各样的笑容，有时看上去非常可爱，有时又面目狰狞，在它刻意天真的外表下，维持着典型日本卡通角色的大眼睛风格。最早，它以绘画的形式出现，时间是在一九九三年。在后来的一些作品里，村上隆更是让DOB长上了一口鲨鱼般的牙齿。DOB的形象被印在T恤衫和气球上大量发售，成为村上隆的另一个自我。“Mr DOB永远在疑惑。”他说。

他强烈意识到——西方的当代艺术与日本的艺术创作是截然不同的，重要的是我们这一代人如何不依靠任何固有的文化体系而创造出最本质的东西。因而他的作品既融合了东方传统与西方文明，高雅艺术与通俗文化之间的对立元素，同时又保留了其作品的娱乐性和观赏性。是一种结合了日本当代流行卡通艺术与传统日本绘画风格特点的产物。其作品趣味性十分值得一提。村上隆将米老鼠的变体形象植入自己的作品（Mr. DOB）将它视为自己的化身并成为独特的视觉符号。

Murakami Takashi (Japanese hiragana Murakami Takashi むらかみたかし Roman character Murakami Takashi) is a highly influential Japanese artist born after the 1960s. He is not only a widely loved artist in Japan, but also an idol of the new generation of young people in Japan.

Born in Tokyo in 1962. In 1993, he obtained a doctoral degree in the Department of Fine Arts from Tokyo University of the Arts. After receiving eleven years of traditional Japanese art education, he completely abandoned those things and began his distinctive contemporary art creation. [1]

This artist, born after the war and raised in the economically prosperous and material rich urban area of Tokyo, was deeply influenced by Japanese anime and manga. The flat image of the work looks both like a doll and a model toy on the surface, blending cuteness, sexual fantasy, and extreme violence, with a strong cartoon and comic color. However, in reality, it reflects the cultural connotations of Japan. As artworks, they are difficult to distinguish from commerce, both modern and traceable to traditional roots, and can be appreciated by everyone. Every time an exhibition is held, rebellious children in their early twenties and elderly men and women in their seventies and eighties are all his audience. No one stands in front of his works and makes puzzled expressions, but everyone is happy to see them.

Since a work was traded for 68 million yen in 2003, his work has been described as the "highest price in the history of a single Japanese artwork".

In 2008, one of his doll works was priced at 500 million yen, setting a record high for the same product.

Among the 100 most influential figures selected by Time magazine in 2008, Takashi Murakami is the only visual artist. His works are mostly inspired by traditional Japanese comics, with precious materials, bright colors, and often showcasing sexual and violent elements.

Not only did Miss Ko2, a blonde cartoon beauty (made of fiberglass and about 2 meters tall), once sold for a staggering $567000 at the Christie's auction in New York; LV handbags, which are highly sought after by women around the world, also frequently collaborate with him, adorned with his design patterns, each selling for up to $5000. Mr. DOB's image has also been printed on T-shirts and balloons, making it a popular trend among young people.

Young people are no longer just satisfied or disdainful of clothes printed with cartoon images of Donald Duck or Hello Kitty. They appreciate the somewhat neurotic Murakami style colors and patterns heavily reflected in their clothes.

From September 14 to December 12, 2010, Murakami Takashi's personal work retrospective exhibition was held at the Palace of Versailles in Paris.

In 2003, Murakami Takashi issued his "Declaration of Childishness", marking the entry of Japanese trendy culture with a sense of childishness into the center of Western fashion. As early as the spring and summer of 2000, Murakami Takashi's iconic "eyes" had already blinked on Miyake's men's clothing. In 2003, his "panda" and "cherry blossom" even made their debut on Louis Vuitton's leather bag. The CherryBlossom of this series is nicknamed "Cherry Bun" by fans, and its pink cherry blossom petals and happy smile make women around the world, especially in Asia, flock to it. Louis Vuitton's classic Monogram Multi color has been swirling among the three colors for a hundred years, and Murakami Takashi used dozens of colors to instantly transform Louis Vuitton's mature and even somewhat old-fashioned image into a colorful and lightweight one. The limited edition EyeLoveMonogram series continues to use the most iconic "eyes" of Murakami Takashi, and has remained popular for the past four years after its release.

At the same time as the "Declaration of Childhood" was issued, a book in China titled "The Disappearance of Childhood" was also very popular. This is actually a very serious academic book, authored by Neil Bozeman, who once wrote the influential book 'Entertainment to Death'. In "The Disappearance of Childhood", he studied the development history of media technology and found that the boundary between adults and children, which was originally established through printing and reading skills, is becoming increasingly blurred under the fierce attack of television. Television transforms adult secrets and violence into entertainment, such as children's favorite cartoons often not the pastoral pastoral songs of little tadpoles seeking mothers, but rather like Transformers A legendary story full of violence like a holy fighter. The most entertaining Japanese manga like Crayon Shin is his "sequel".

At the same time, Neil Bozeman also found that while children are becoming adults, adults are also becoming increasingly childlike, and the intelligence level of television news and advertising is only equivalent to that of a 10 year old child. These academic predictions seem more likely to be fulfilled.

He quickly became popular in Japan and became a leader in the "New Popularization" movement, with his works frequently appearing in mainstream Western media such as the New York Times. His manga characters KaiKai and KiKi were not only highly popular in Japan, but also received a huge response when he exhibited Superflat at the Contemporary Art Museum in Los Angeles and the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. The best-selling of his works has earned him a huge reputation and is known as one of the most popular and controversial artists in the world today.

He is also the creator and manager of the Japanese youth artist group "HIROPON Factory" with strong energy. He enjoys being surrounded by a large group of assistants and prefers to create in a factory rather than a personal studio. In his factory, there are all young artists and well-trained technicians. In addition, he also established his own company, KAIKAIKIKI, and carried out creative, exhibition planning, and art trading work at the same time. However, his studio looks very inconspicuous, with an ordinary and simple appearance, like the housing of ordinary Japanese farmers.

He not only created strange and interesting images in the eyes of Westerners, but also created his own style and theory called "Superflat", and showcased various aspects of his unique style with exhibitions and albums also named Superflat - including cartoon painting, semi minimalist sculptures, huge and inflatable balloons, watch T-shirts and other product designs, installation art, and animation. On his products or works, there is often a fictional character named "Mr. DOB" with two big ears and a cute but terrifying appearance, resembling his signature.

Mr. DOB, also known as Mr. Blinking, Murakami Takashi once explained the origin of DOB in this way, I often think about the context of art, and these reflections have given me a face that can change freely. Why do the unstoppable masters of modern art, such as Cezanne, Duchamp, Picasso, Warhol, and Okamoto Taro, still have such strong vitality in their works decades later? The well-known images of Mickey Mouse, the robotic cat, and Hello Kitty, their 'survival secrets' in the market, or rather What is' universality '—— Actually, I did the 'DOB Plan' to inquire about these issues. Now, this plan is more like my self portrait

DOB is actually a word coined by Murakami Takashi by combining the catchphrase of a Japanese manga character with the Japanese dialect, which can be translated as "why". It combines the image characteristics of Mickey Mouse and Japanese manga, with the letters D and B written on its two large ears, and its head precisely having an O. It has a variety of smiles, sometimes very cute, sometimes ferocious, and under its deliberately innocent appearance, it maintains the big eye style of typical Japanese cartoon characters. It first appeared in the form of painting in 1993. In some later works, Murakami Takashi even made DOB grow shark like teeth. The image of DOB has been printed on T-shirts and balloons for sale, becoming another self of Murakami Takashi. Mr. DOB is always in doubt, "he said.

He strongly realized that contemporary Western art is completely different from Japanese art creation, and what is important is how our generation can create the most essential things without relying on any inherent cultural system. Therefore, his works not only integrate the opposing elements between Eastern tradition and Western civilization, as well as between elegant art and popular culture, but also retain the entertainment and ornamental value of his works. It is a product that combines the characteristics of contemporary Japanese popular cartoon art with traditional Japanese painting styles. Its works are very interesting and worth mentioning. Murakami Takashi incorporated the variant image of Mickey Mouse into his work (Mr. DOB) and regarded it as his own embodiment and a unique visual symbol.