Chiaroscuro creates a profound depth on this piece, which retains the attention transferring across the painting. But it’s her enigmatic smile that magnetizes the viewer, along with the mystery of what is behind that well-known smile. His work is typified in this triptych, combining the artist’s signature avatar Mr. DOB, who sits centrally poised and tragically laughing. 727 is a reference to the Boeing American airplanes that flew over Murakami’s childhood house Art while heading to U.S. army bases, a direct nod to the united states presence in post-WWII Japan that he typically revisits in his art.
More recently, thinkers influenced by Martin Heidegger have interpreted art as the means by which a neighborhood develops for itself a medium for self-expression and interpretation. Larry Shiner has described fantastic art as “not an essence or a fate but one thing we now have made. Art as we now have usually understood …