The Japanese Insta-artist fusing art history with pop culture

After seeing Shusaku Takoaka’s Instagram you’ll never look at Disney characters in the same way again.

The Japanese graphic designer is finessing dark humour, making seamlessly fused collages of Disney princesses on drugs, politicians in Pulp Fiction and the Mona Lisa in Moncler. It’s like pop culture, art history and politics has been thrown into a blender and then Instagrammed, creating a deliciously funny medley of 21st century consumerism. With old art history and modern pop culture, Takoaka shows how much society has changed, exposing our dark realities. Like selfies and McDonalds. Cinderella doing coke with Mia Wallace? Enter Takoaka’s world…

Follow Shusaku on Instagram @shusaku1977

Artwork
via @shusaku1977 Instagram
Text
Sadie Bargeron