Okera Kai
Tadanori Yokoo
Japanese, born 1936
1997
A silkscreen poster by Tadanori Yokoo that collages traditional Japanese motifs, neon pop graphics, and an array of pasted portrait heads into a surreal, satirical tableau meant to critique and reconfigure mass culture and national identity.
You are struck by the loud teal lettering and radiating hot-pink beams that slice across a candy‑colored landscape crowded with a clustered bouquet of faces, pagodas, mahjong tiles framing the edges, and unsettlingly playful juxtapositions of historic and commercial imagery.
Yokoo blends echoes of ukiyo-e, 1960s psychedelia, and commercial design to forge a provocative visual language that blurred art and advertising in postwar Japan and influenced generations of graphic designers worldwide.
Medium
Silkscreen
Dimensions
40 9/16 x 28 11/16" (103 x 72.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the designer
Accession
289.1998
Palette
Exhibitions
