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

Dash Snow is best known for his sculptural installations, collages, and photographs. Snow has exhibited in galleries and museums such as The Royal Academy in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2006 Biennial "Day For Night", Deitch Projects, Saatchi Gallery and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery i

Absurd, Agitated, Angry, Body art, Cartoonish, Documentary photography, Figurative, Graffitists and cartoonists, Grand, Hallucinatory, In-your-face, Political, Social revolution, Trippy, Violent

Is the man in Fang Lijun's "Series II: No 2" (1992) screaming or yawning? Is this extreme anguish or utter boredom? And what is his relation to the group of almost identical men standing in the distance behind him? Is he just one guy in a crowd of undifferentiated guys, or is he asserting his individ

Absurd, Angry, Cartoonish, Cynical realism, Funny, Visceral

While watching a show by Survival Research Laboratories, at what point do we feel nervous? When the gigantic flame-thrower laps its angry tongue in our direction? When a tank-sized steel monster chews menacingly on a piece of scrap metal? All forms of death and destruction are accounted for by SRL, d

Cartoonish, Catastrophe, Implosive, Industrial, Kinetic art, Physical force, Playful, Robotic sculpture, Technology, Violent, Visceral