Kawashima Orimono
Tadanori Yokoo
Japanese, born 1936
1997
A silkscreen poster in which Tadanori Yokoo fuses Buddhist iconography, map-like markings, decorative emblems and pop portraiture to advertise Kawashima textiles while staging a theatrical collision of past and present.
A luminous red-robed deity fills the center against a textured, vermilion-scrawled background while glossy circular photo portraits, bold gradients, and stylized fans and clouds puncture the composition, making the sacred feel simultaneously theatrical and commercial.
Part advertisement and part visual manifesto, this work exemplifies Yokoo’s influential reinvention of traditional Japanese motifs through psychedelic color, collage, and pop techniques, helping reshape late-20th-century graphic design in Japan and internationally.
Medium
Silkscreen
Dimensions
40 9/16 x 28 11/16" (103.1 x 72.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the designer
Accession
280.1998
Palette
Exhibitions
