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“Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan”

“Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan”

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Credit

Creator
Robyn Schiff
Rights
Artforum

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October 16, 2026

Traits

Palette & Light

EarthToneEarth & Ochre

Saturated clay, ochre, olive, and oxidised red — pigment-derived hues at full strength, drawn from earth and paint rather than from screen colour.

Layout

FrontalSymmetrySymmetry

Highly structured, perfectly centered focal points emerging from negative space.

Medium

PosterWorkPoster / Out-of-Home

Single-surface display work built to be read at distance — bills, gig posters, and out-of-home placements.

DrawnWorkDrawing & Illustration

Work made by hand or by digital brush — ink, pencil, watercolour, gouache, painted mural, vector illustration — shown as the image itself rather than as an element inside a poster, cover or spread.

Subject

FigureWorkHuman Figure

The body as primary subject — portraiture, fashion figure, and the crowd.

Shares traits with

Ranked by how many traits each reference has in common with this one — computed from the image, never from who is looking at it.

Film poster for Problemista, a surreal digital composition featuring a young man with dark hair centered against a vivid blue sky, surrounded by inverted colorful skyscrapers, flying figures with parachutes, and small clouds.Poster design for a theatrical production featuring a stylized female figure with raised arms against a dark background.A vivid poster for a music event featuring a surreal black illustration of a contorted humanoid figure with multiple limbs and tentacles against a bright orange background.Digital collage illustration featuring multiple female figures layered with landscape photography, flora, and fashion imagery on a cream background.A vibrant fashion illustration of two female figures in colorful outfits from the Tom Ford S/S 21 collection, rendered in mixed media with expressive brushwork and watercolor.A watercolor fashion portrait of a figure with long dark hair and pale skin, wearing a spotted leopard-print coat over a light striped shirt with a bow tie.An illustration of two dancers in ballet-inspired fashion, rendered in watercolour and ink on paper.Illustration of four stylized female faces wearing oversized vintage sunglasses in varying colours — pink, yellow, black, and clear with coloured lenses — rendered in gouache or acrylic with bold outlines.Film poster teaser featuring a close-up portrait photograph of a face with green and gold eyeshadow, red lips, and a white tissue held to the cheek against dark background.Movie poster for Roving Woman, directed by Michał Chmielewski.Magazine cover from July 1976 featuring a faint portrait of a face printed in muted tones on a sage-green background, overlaid with scattered vitamin capsules and pills in bright yellow, red, pink, and black.A flat illustration in pop-art style depicting a woman seated in a geometric pink armchair, wearing a yellow turtleneck, red trousers, and green heeled boots, holding a corded telephone handset.