Japan ’s most bewildering poster creative person and illustrator is get a new show at the University of Chicago ’s Joseph Regenstein Library . Tadanori Yokoo throws together blinding colors , eldritch pop - prowess mention , woodcut illustrations and folly to dazzle your brains out . Maybe NSFW …
As the Seattle Post - Intelligencer order it :
Critics trying to sum up the work of artist Tadanori Yokoo have call him , “ The Japanese Andy Warhol . ” That ’s like calling James Joyce , “ The Irish Dr. Seuss . ” Both artists use silk - cover techniques to produce prints , and that ’s where the law of similarity stop . Warhol ’s clear , linear , flat , and repetitious surfaces have a intuitive optic impingement . The middle instantly recognizes and grasps the subject , often a colourful take on an already iconic trope . Throw aside all of that pop - art kapow , replace it with chaos , complexness , to-do , clutter , and more layer than a twelve - tiered wedding party cake . The lead merry - go - rung of mental confusion is the nontextual matter of Tadanori Yokoo . watcher quick for Yokoo ’s wild drive should form a line at the University of Chicago ’s Joseph Regenstein Library . Dramamine is optional , but recommended …
Born in 1936 , Tadanori Yokoo was deep influenced by Japan ’s rapidly - change post - worldwide War II cultivation . His art mull Japan ’s passage from an parochial , tradition - bound nation to a modern , global economical human dynamo . A single Yokoo silk screen door can contain motifs from 19th century Japanese woodblock prints , Botticelli ’s Birth of Venus , traditional samurai blade , Dada photo collage , yakuza tattoos , Michelangelo ’s Laurentian Library , manga and Zanzibar copal persona , and 1960 ’s psychedelia . About the only thing you wo n’t get in Yokoo ’s everything - but - the - kitchen - sink esthetical is any tincture of hard - abut abstract .
Images viaPink Tentacle , A Journey Round My SkullandRandom Index . More pics at the links . [ Seattle Post - Intelligencer ]
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