Ay-O – Rainbow Hokusai (1970)

Exhibition poster with the work, Rainbow Hokusai, (1970), by the Japanese artist, Takao Lijima, with the artist name, Ay-O, - from the exhibition, Japan on Louisiana, in 1974. Ay-O is known as the "rainbow man" for his use of color-saturated, rainbow-striped motifs and the poster's motif here is a section of Rainbow Hokusai.

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Of all foreign cultures, the Japanese one is probably the one that has had the most profound impact on the sensibility of the Western world for more than a hundred years, says Louisiana Revy in a foreword to the exhibition.

Japanese woodcuts influenced European painting with their flat painting and bold cuts of the motif, and the ink art of Zen art influenced American and European art in the 1950s and 1960s.

Modern Western architects are indebted to their Japanese colleagues, whose sense of materials, intimacy and human proportions fascinated and were incorporated. For example, the Japanese modular system, which several of Louisiana's own buildings also express – a line of thinking that was fully developed by architects of the Bauhaus generation in particular.

And the influence and inspiration went both ways. Both European painters and architects sent strong influences back to Japanese painting and architecture. In the same way, experiences were exchanged between Japanese and European crafts, from the French Art Deco of the 1920s to the Finnish industrial arts of the 1950s.

Dimensions: W: 59.4 x H: 84.1 cm (A1)

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Frame: 12mm
Material: Frame in solid oak and with high-quality acrylic glass.