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Born: February 1, 1962 (age 58 years), Itabashi City, Tokyo, Japan

Personal Success Definition

State why are they successful, with your definition?

They are hands down successful because he does what he wants and makes him happy. His art is as unabashed and weird as he is. He is one of the if not number one successful virtual artists, all while maintaining his signature style and sticking to it.

Skills for Success

Murakami went to Japanese art schools so that he could hone in his skills in a more traditional style. 2) As he got better and his skills grew he found out what he likes and was able to put his own style and spin on traditional styles, and took risks. 3) He is unafraid to stray from the norm and it shows in his work. (wikipedia.com)

How They Used These Skills

Murakami had twice made album covers for the famous rapper Kanye West, one for his album Graduation, and the other for his Collab album Kids See Ghosts. Now this not only showed off his style that lots grew to love, but gave him a new western press that he really didn’t have.

Challenges Overcome

His really only problem in the art space was himself and his style as he was always super talented and could produce the typical Japanese style art very proficiently. So in his desire to be himself and find his style of course people didn’t want it at first but as I said earlier it soon blew up.

Significant Work

Murakami’s newest art craze is his flower which a simple painting will cost anywhere from two to three thousand dollars

Resources

EXAMPLES:

https://gagosian.com/artists/takashi-murakami/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Murakami

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