The Stupid Serious: Madsaki Sits Down With 'Juxtapoz'

"What happens when the student takes on many masters?" That's long been the question behind much of Japanese artist Madsaki's work. Over the years, the 42-year-old Osaka native has taken on everyone from Picasso to Takashi Murakami, offering up his own vandalistic takes on the artists' most iconic works as a "modern take on modernism." As Juxtapoz's Joey Garfield notes, "in a time when the unofficial remix version of a song can outshine the original, the same can hold true in the world of fine a...