Homage to Basket of Flowers (Song Dynasty)

Offered is an absolutely iconic work by Takashi Murakami . ”Homage To Basket Of Flowers (Li Song),” not only exemplifies the artist’s fabled “Superflat Method”, in addition, it is a modern artwork that references a traditional Chinese painting by Li Song, a court painter from the Song Dynasty. Murakami's works are known for their vibrant, colorful style and incorporation of elements from anime, Japanese art, and pop culture. This work is an absolutely stunning Murakami piece. The work has undergone the artist’s traditional process of taking a cold pressed lithograph (in this case a four color lithograph), next the printmaker applies a layer of what Murakami calls “Pearlescent Silkscreen Varnish”. Murakami’s prints often time have a “glistening” effect to them that no other editions have; this is a result of the “Pearlescent Silkscreen varnish”. For this work there has been a “Heavy layer” (as the artist describes it) of the pearlescent varnis