The colors, the horrifying colors! Like the bliss of Takashi Murakami bringing ancient Japanese art and mixing in the fast pace of anime comes the step-child that has no real connection. Awazu Kiyoshi, Graphic Design: Summoning the Outdated is a colorful display in the Pavilion for Japanese Art at LACMA.Kiyoshi has created a series of posters that take a piece of Japanese lore or look and then mods it with bright colors or a modern idea to create his work. The result is eye-catching work that keeps a distinct Japanese feeling to it.
Now bear in mind this isn't the largest collection on Earth, it's a small window of brightly colored posters to stare into.
There like movie posters for aliens in a sci-fi 60's movie. Really the art just looks so strange, but f you just peer past it onto the other sections of the pavillion you see and feel a connection.
Much of the work here was for a theater group promoting their plays. while other promote a Japanese art convention from different years. You might be hard pressed to tell that from the sight of them.
Pavilion for Japanese Art, October 15, 2016–May 7, 2017
Admission to LACMA .
