Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai
Tadanori Yokoo
Japanese, born 1936
Unknown
An offset-lithograph poster by Tadanori Yokoo that turns a message for the Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai into a simple, modern image: two hand-painted, jewel-toned globes floating above stenciled letters on a wide cream field.
Your eye is drawn immediately to the pair of roughly brushed, colorful spheres—vivid blues, pinks, and greens—that hover like planets against the spare paper, their painterly texture and slight asymmetry feeling both playful and meditative.
The work shows Yokoo’s signature blend of psychedelic color, popular imagery, and Japanese visual tradition, helping to broaden graphic design into a form of fine art and to rethink how public and spiritual messages could be communicated in postwar Japan.
Medium
Offset lithograph
Dimensions
Primary (uncut) 43 1/4 × 31 1/8" (109.9 × 79.1 cm)
Duplicate (cut) 40 3/4 × 28 7/8" (103.5 × 73.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the designer
Accession
840.1983
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