There are many icons that symbolize a specific meaning. A skull icon is the usual symbol for death, or a heart icon is the symbol of love. Colors also have their own meaning depending on what it is being used for. Red can be the symbol of hot and love, while blue can be the symbol of cold and wet. Tadanori Yokoo, a contemporary artist used these symbols and colors to create meaning in his artwork. He also uses specific people, such as Buddha and Marilynn Monroe to make a story in his artwork. Mixing colors, icons and people in his artwork is how he creates a story. In addition, Tadanori has many series that all reflect either the same color or the same gender. Within Tadanori Yokoo’s works it is also revealed that there are a few different …show more content…
Pop Art was a modern style that used the imagery of mass-media, mass-culture and mass production. In “Some Traditional Aspects of Pop Art”, John Sandberg explained that Pop Art is a “realistic in that it presents recognizable images of familiar objects; and yet it goes considerable lengths to avoid realism in its more conventional form,” pointing out that the “artist’s goal is to distort the image, to modify it enough so that it is no longer naturalistic, yet not enough to make it unrecognizable.” From America, Pop Art slowly made its …show more content…
He is known as the Japanese “Andy Warhol” because of his usage and influence of American Pop Art. When creating the artwork in the memory of Marilyn Monroe after her death in 1962, Andy Warhol and Tadanori Yokoo shared similar taste. Tadanori Yokoo’s work, A Chronicle of Marilyn Monroe’s Sex life, (Fig. 1) used bright colors to make the left bottom head shot of Marilyn pop out. His colors are similar to the ones that Andy Warhol used in his Marilyn Diptych (Fig.2). The usage of bright colors on Marilyn’s hair and skin makes the art work “pop” out from the picture. He uses pink skin tone color, red ruby lips and bright blond hair. However, in Andy Warhol’s artwork of Marilyn Monroe, there are an extra twenty-five pictures of the popular female in black and white. The images mirror each other except for the color differences. The bright colors represents the time where Miss Monroe was alive while the “right concedes the absence of its mourned subject, openly displaying the variation from dark to faint” , meaning that Marilyn Monroe is fading like a ghost. In the Marilyn Diptych, it is like a time line of Monroe’s life. She’s first depicted as bright colors to symbolize life, then she starts losing her colors because of her death. The darkness in parts of her picture symbolize how death took her