Dimensions / 55.9×71.1cm

This is a poster of a 1948 romantic comedy musical film Top o’ the Morning featuring the faces of the leading characters Bing Crosby, Ann Blyth, and Barry Fitzgerald. Nam June Paik drew undulating lines askew across the poster, upon which to write two Chinese characters, meaning the morning and the top respectively in combination of four colors, alluding to the film’s title. At the bottom, he wrote part of the lyrics of traditional song, “Oh Moon the Bright, Oh Moon that Amused Li Taipo.” This lyrical phrase was also written in one of Paik’s prints, next to the sentence “Moon is the Oldest TV set for the Mankind.”