Hello Kitty is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, first designed by Yuko Shimizu She is portrayed as a female white Japanese bobtail cat with a red bow. The character's first appearance on an item, a vinyl coin purse, was introduced in Japan in 1974 and brought to the United States in 1976. The character is a staple of the kawaii segment of Japanese popular culture. At age 36 as of 2010, Sanrio has groomed Hello Kitty into a global marketing phenomenon worth $5 billion a year. By 2014, when Hello Kitty was 40 years old, it was doing $7 billion a year, all without any advertising.
Jeff Koons is an artist know for his reproductions of banal objects such as ballon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. Jeff has made a name for himself by using everyday objects in special installations that touched human experience. Some of his art has consisted of overtly sexual themes while others have been seen as a form of neo-kitsch, such as his balloon dogs. In 1988, he debuted a famous sculpture of Michael Jackson.
Takashi Murakami is an internationally prolific Japanese artist. He works in fine arts media- such as painting and sculpture- as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media, fashion, merchandise and animation. Takashi uses a wide range of mediums and it's generally described as super flat. His work has been noted for its use of colour, his work is described as cute, psychedelic or satirical. I chose this artist because he shares similar taste of cute art.
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