A Red River is Visible Flower Ball where conceptual density often hides

where conceptual density often hides beneath a surface of immediate visual appeal

The use of one or another form of expression has the only goal of solving a problem

Image size: 51 x 106 cm

One reading is that the series offered a calculated response to those who saw his work as too closely bound to consumer culture and celebrity imagery

A Red River is Visible Flower Ball where conceptual density often hidesHigh quality, textured offset lithograph with cold stamp and high gloss varnishing on paper. Hand signed and numbered by Takashi Murakami from a limited edition of 300. Published by Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd, Japan. A Red River is Visible begins with a historical echo rather than a narrative scene. The work belongs to Murakamis sustained dialogue with Ogata Krin, one of the defining masters of the Rinpa school, whose paintings transformed flowers, rivers