1960's to 1970'2
Post by Melissa Mackie
Tadanori Yokoo ia one of Japans most successfull and internationally recocognised graphic designers. He is also recognised for his painting, printmaking, photography and illustrations.
His early works show the influence of the New York based Push Pin Studio (Milton Glaser and Seymore Chwast in particular), but Yokoo himself cities filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and writer Yukio Mushima as two of his most formative influences. He is probably most recognised in our country for his 70's album covers for Miles Davis, Santana, Cat Stevens and the Beatles.
After traveling to india in the late 1960's he became interested in mysticism and psychedelia.
By the late 60's he had already achieved international recognition for his work and was included in the 1968 "Word and Image" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Four years later MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work organised by Mildred Constantine.
By the early 1990's Yokoo added computer design to his technique vocabulary and changed his style even further, by reassembling previous works digitally.
In 1981 he unexpectedly retired from commercial work and devoted his time to fine art. His career as a fine artist continues to this day with numerous exhibitions of his paintings every year.
GOOD ONE MELISSA :)
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