Untitled

Untitled

Shoichi Ida

1970

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This image shows a black suitcase with a shiny lid and a few small, raised circles on top. Above it floats a pale, blurry face with a soft pink outline, like smoke or a dream. The background is split into bold colors—blue, pink, and gray—with a camera icon in the top-left corner. The suitcase looks almost like a floating object, with no clear ground beneath it. The artist used simple shapes and bright colors to make it feel strange and dreamlike. If you like this style, check out lithography to see how artists print images this way.

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