Fashion News
Akihiko Tsukamoto
Japanese, born 1952
1980
A silkscreen poster by Akihiko Tsukamoto that playfully presents a decorative, label-like “Fashion News” graphic—mixing commercial advertising tropes with ornamental Japanese and exotic imagery to both promote and parody fashion culture.
A jewel-like mint-green square—packed with a circular emblemlike portrait, chrysanthemums, and Japanese lettering—seems to float in a deep, velvety black-to-blue gradient as a thin golden beam pinpoints it, heightening the contrast between the ornate, pop-colored motif and the empty surrounding field.
The work exemplifies late-20th-century Japanese graphic design’s postmodern blend of historical pastiche, bright silkscreen color, and commercial imagery, helping to blur the line between advertising and fine art and influencing contemporary visual culture.
Medium
Silkscreen
Dimensions
31 1/16 x 43 1/16" (78.9 x 109.4 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the designer
Accession
828.1983
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