Excerpt from James Adams’ 15 Inspired Artworks from Japan’s Superflat Movement:
Tokyo-based pop artist Yoshitomo Nara creates deceptively simple images, often of pastel-hued children against plain backgrounds. While the images at first appear rather innocuous, these children often have aggressive, accusatory expressions, and brandish small weapons such as knives and saws. Nara takes inspiration from post-war Japanese and Western culture including comic books and cartoons, but infuses his work with subtle horror and fantasy imagery, along with a punk rock sensibility.
