Tadanori Yokoo

Tadanori Yokoo (jp: 横尾忠則 Yokoo Tadanori) is a graphic designer and a Japanese plastics technician born in 1936 with Nishiwaki (Préfecture of Hyōgo, Japan).

He is the creator of hundreds of posters, paintings, joinings and books. He is regarded by certain critics as the Andy Warhol Japanese.

Its work

Initially graphic designer, Tadanori Yokoo worked much for Yukio Mishima and Issey Miyake of which it made the invitation cards for his processions.

In 1981, it states to want from now on to devote themselves to painting and to stop the realization of work of orders. It however continues to use Japanese techniques raising more of the graphic design that painting, taking again the exuberant colors of the “images of the floating world” (Ukiyo-e), or using the Surimpression, technical exit of the world of the Photographie.

Yokoo combines its knowledge of the techniques and Western contemporary works (it makes Francis Picabia its model and has a very precise knowledge with regard to the Histoire of European art, since the Renaissance until the Surréalistes) with a very important Japanese heritage. Its works borrow thus as much from Warhol, the Russian constructivists, the American advertisements of the Années 1950 that with Utagawa, Hiroshige or Hokusai… but also with Margritte for its praise of the dream and with Bruegel for its erotism.

It uses in abundance the color Rouge which besides in the Far East is the noble color par excellence, the color of the capacity and the emperor. It is also the color of the life, died and sexuality, by the blood which it symbolizes. It makes speak all violence that it has in him, and seems to reveal, through the constant representation of the birth, its own traumatism to be born.

External bonds

the site of the artist

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