Takashi Murakami: Flower Sparkles! Alan Solomon layering and juxtaposing images

layering and juxtaposing images

which convey the range of Frankenthaler’s innovations with color and form

Elsewhere in this issue: Joshua Chuang contextualizes Paul McCartney’s 1960s photographs

spanning his brief but meteoric career

Ruby designed the poster

Takashi Murakami: Flower Sparkles! Alan Solomon layering and juxtaposing imagesFlower Sparkles! is a limited edition print featuring Takashi Murakamis distinctive multicolored smiling flower motif, which first appeared in his practice in 1995. A graphic floral outline is filled with multiple smaller versions of the same design, with each petal dedicated to a different hue of a gradated rainbow spectrum surrounding the central visage. The resultant image resonates with Murakamis renowned Superflat aesthetic, in which he combines