Superflat Essays

Rachel Lee HMS 101 - 19A 2 March 2018 Professor Muhlstein Super Frog Saves Tokyo In Haruki Murakami’s compelling, almost discombobulating short fiction, Super Frog Saves Tokyo, we are quickly introduced to two characters, Frog and Katagiri. Right away, the line between reality and imagination is blurred. Murakami dabbles in magical realism- where surreal characters or objects appear in everyday life. Murakami illustrates a hypnotic nightmare, juxtaposing the marvelous from the mundane- his ambiguity

You’re walking through an underground pass, and you notice something strange. You happen to be near Gloucester, UK, and you see a large mural while walking around with your coffee in your hand. It happens to be a work of Chiho Aoshima, a rising artist of the Japanese Contemporary movement. You stand a few minutes, letting the busy crowd wash over you like busy fish over a stationary pebble in a stream. Your coffee is cold now, but you feel warmed by the vibrant colors of the mural. You take one last

In this essay I will be discussing Pop Culture and Pop Art, supporting it with an analysis of two Pop art works. One from Yayoi Kusama an artist whose work spans a period of almost 70 years. The second art work will be that of Takashi Murakami a Contemporary Pop Artist. This era in art was defined by its rejection of previous art movements which focused on abstraction. The Pop art movement was characterized by the mass reproduction of the “sign” which can be linked directly to the time where industry