Chiho Aoshima (青島千穂) is a Japanese pop artist and member of Takashi Murakami's Kaikai Kiki Collective. Aoshima graduated from Department of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo. She had a residency at Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas in 2006. This young graphic artist began in Murakami's factory wi

Anime & manga, Cartoonish, Fantastic, Figurative, Graffitists and cartoonists, Hi-tech, Polychromatic, Superflat, Surreal

Perhaps the best way to introduce Murakami's work is through DOB, the character at the center of most everything the artist has done during his seven-year ascent to art stardom. The artist's little leitmotif, DOB is a Mickey Mouse-like, cartoonish and clueless creation whose name derives from the sla

Anime & manga, Cartoonish, Fantastic, Graffitists and cartoonists, In-your-face, Kinetic, Superflat

If Walter Ruttman had not been killed while making a newsreel on the frontlines of World War II, the history of film might have turned out differently. He made breathtakingly beautiful movies -- both animated and shot --that radically departed from the traditional narratives of contemporaries like Ch

Collage, Dense, German expressionist film, Perceptual, Pioneering, Rhythmic, Sophisticated

It's a strange world that casts decor as its main character. This is the world of the Brothers Quay, in which all kinds of incomprehensible objects and machines hold the stage while human characters remain at their mercy. Disjointed, dreamy, labyrinthine, and oblique, this is a theater of the unconsc

Dark, Distorted, Dreamy, Ethereal, Layered, Melancholy