Talk:Takashi Murakami

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Ew, did he really make those mangas? 68.95.141.158 03:58, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

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Not to make a fuss, but this article reads more like a magazine article about Murakami than an encyclopedia article. It also is way too fawning, but that seems to me a lesser concern. For example, the grand pronouncements about trends in art history ("Social commentary is nothing new"), rhetorical questioning ("So what makes Takashi Murakami different from his predecessors, like Andy Warhol?"), and interpretation of his work ("clearly critiques on westernization".) Even the descriptions of his paintings sound more suited to a breezy newspaper review than a straight-up description of his work ("the Superflat style is really obvious here"). The timeline is copied part-and-parcel from his company's website, which, however one credits it, seems like a pretty clear no-no. A top-to-bottom rewrite is probably in order, and I'm sure as hell not going to do it. 69.136.86.237 22:09, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I wonder if someone could explain what it is that makes "Hiropon" and "My Lonesome Cowboy" critiques of westernization. If anything, they seem almost transhumanist in depicting novel transformations of the human body; although art from its very beginnings has depicted bizarre, grotesque, and amazing modifications of human biology beyond its natural range. Mporter 03:32, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

This article is awful. Unencyclopedic, problems with tense agreement, praising tone, unnecessary information. Is the average reader going to care about Murakami's "hundreds of pocket sketchbooks" or that he uses Adobe Illustrator? And with the odd noun usage and marketing language, some of the sentences look like they've been lifted directly from a company brochure (i.e. "Kaikai Kiki is not only involved with how can we best make a piece of art with high quality and concept, but with a system of checks and balances, supply and demand.").

69.142.79.134 01:00, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Register Of The Tagged Section Isn't Very Encyclopedic.

Somepeople say style, but it's the linguistic definition I'm using.100110100 10:20, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Pardon me. I've noticed that I tagged just one section before; I've come across another sentence that could be changed. I'm not going to read the whole article, so I've tagged the whole article.100110100 10:25, 27 October 2006 (UTC)