Poster details
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- Type of Poster
- B2
- Style of Poster
- Beauties in Myth
- Origin of Poster
- Japan
- Year of Poster
- 2014
- Designer
- Unknown
- Artist
- Noriyoshi Ohrai
- Size (inches)
- 20 6/16" x 28 14/16"
- SS or DS
- SS
- Tagline
- --
This is one of four B2 sized posters that were printed to advertise the Noriyoshi Ohrai exhibition that took place in Miyazaki, Japan from February to March 2014. I was lucky enough to have been given these posters by the exhibition director Tatsuya Ishida after being given a personal tour when I visited in March.
This poster features an example of one of the ‘beauties in myths’ paintings that Ohrai created to feature on the cover of SF Magazine, a popular Japanese periodical during the 1980s. Ohrai was asked to choose a theme for a series of covers that were printed over the course of a year and he decided to mix high-tech and sci-fi elements with women from history and mythical stories, for example Messalina, the infamous third wife of Roman emperor Claudius.
I wrote a report of my visit to the exhibition and that can be viewed here.