About Verner Panton

Verner Panton was born in 13^th feb 1926 – 5^th sep 1998. He is considered one of Denmark’s most remarkable innovative talent of 20^th century design and architecture. He went to Architectural studies at the Royal Academy of the Arts, Copenhagen. Later He marries Marianne in 1964 Basle and is blessed with a daughter Carin later in 1966.

During his career, he creates inflatable furniture, pioneered with the much single molded plastic chair in vibrant colours and refused to accept gravity by creating the flying chair.  The main purpose of his work is to provoke people into using their imagination. He says ‘Most people spend their lives living in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours.’ By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, he tries to show new ways, to encourage people to use their phantasy imagination and make their surroundings more exciting"

Near the end of the 1950s, his chair designs became more and more unconventional, with no legs or discernible back.

  

About Takashi Murakami

 

Takashi Murakami is, born in Tokyo. He is an internationally productive contemporary Japanese artist. He is best known for blurring the line between high and low arts. He works in fine arts media, such as painting and sculpture—as well as fashion, merchandise, and animation.

From his childhood, he was an enthusiastic follower of animation and manga (Japanese comics), and aspired to one day work in the animation industry.He attended T.U.A Tokyo University of the Arts, to gain drafting skills necessary to become an animator, but eventually majored in Nihonga, the ‘traditional’ style of Japanese painting that incorporates traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and subjects.

He coined the term superflat, which describes the origins of contemporary Japanese visual pop culture to historical Japanese art. Superflat is also used as a moniker to describe Murakami’s own artistic style and that of other Japanese artists he has influenced.

The paintings, sculptures of Takashi Murakami are colourful and attractive, and accessible in their reference to lovable cartoon characters.  Murakami uses his deep understanding of Western art to integrate his work into its structure; working from the inside to portray “Japanese-ness” as a tool to bring about revolution in the world of art.