Superflat
スーパーフラット / 2000s– / Style / Japanese Contemporary Art
Juxtaposes anime, manga, advertising and traditional painting on one flat plane, questioning the border of high art and consumer culture.
Extreme flatness / Vivid color / Repeated characters / Commercial culture
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Studying the style's historical context · Comparing the visual vocabulary across real works
- Type
- Choose by the source era and medium
- Composition
- Identify and reproduce one governing compositional principle
- Material
- Verify the materials and production conditions of real examples
- Caution
- Don't confuse it with anime-style character work in general; verify the critique of consumer culture.
- Further study
- Takashi Murakami / Hiropon Factory / postwar Japanese visual culture