NO MORE WAR_1
Date
Format
- Poster 2776
Media
- paper 2274
Techniques
Dimensions
- Width
- 48cm
Locations Made
- Japan 619
- Tokyo 93
- Tokyo Prefecture 89
NO MORE WAR_1 is a screenprint by Japanese graphic designer Keiichi Tanaami, made and published by him in 1967 in Tokyo in an collection of 30 prints. Its imagery consists of psychodelic patterns, frame-within-a-frame composition with the heavy usage of rippling stripes of hot pink, lime, orange, and electric blue, patterns, shapes, and figures. The words "NO MORE WAR" are in bold red block letters across the center of this design.
Tanaami made this poster during the Vietnam War era, drawing on Pop Art, psychedelia, and Japanese graphic traditions. He grew up in Tokyo during the wartime bombings, and that experience shaped his recurring themes of war, memory, and surrealism. The piece shows how the bright, optimistic visual language of the 1960s and carries an anti-war message, and it helped establish Tanaami as a leading figure in Japanese psychedelic and Pop graphic design. It also reflects an exchange between Japanese and Western poster culture in the late 1960s.