(To a tweet of Takashi Murakami, about saying Gerhart Richter 'Money is dirty'.)
What was the pop artist? Was commercialism dirty in him?
I have almost none money (honestly say under 500 thousand yen now), but Mr. Gerhard Richter and Mr. Takashi Murakami have far much more money than me.
I am sad because may I cannot continue my life for poverty.
You are famous contemporary artists, however I have nothing.
What was dirtiness on money? Why Mr. Murakami cannot say money is dirty? Is it really dirty? Why does Mr. Richter say so?
I read Mr. Richter's interview, he said like 'Gogh is not my ideal. I like more success artist'. And he has become to one of dirty commercial aritsts?
What is dirtiness on him. Capitalism itself? Or commercial arts? Is it including some of his pieces on him too?
'Honorable poverty' was a key concept in Bushido ethics. We Japanese know it more or less unconscious.
Mr. Murakami wrote in your book, an antithesis of the ethics. Mr. Murakami was amazing that Mr. Richter was saying anti-mammonism word. And Mr. Murakami said he still couldn't say so. Perhaps, maybe Mr. Murakami recalled a part of Bushido ethics unconsiously.
Wasn't the fine art a part commercial cultures? If it was really, was also the pop art a part of dirty meme? Or, should fine artsts criticize capitalism as dirty part of us?
I haven't the source of Mr. Richter's this video, so I can't say that confidently, but parhaps this context is an irony of contemporary fine art. Mr. Richter had come from East Germany. And he has been seeing mammonism art like a to z.
On the contrary of him, may Mr. Murakami is more pure on art statement in heart, you would like to say same word honestly like old Samurai concept of honorable poverty.
Samurai learned from confucianism and buddhism, sometimes a part of them keeped their poverty to show altruism as aristcrat. Like a puritan.
I guess there is a link among a traveler view of life to West from East Germany, and Bushido ethics in you.
