Print of the Day!! Thur. May 11, 2023 is by Hodaka Yoshida (1926-1995): "Idetachi" from the 'Primitive Energy' series, color woodcut, 1956. $850.00.

Print of the Day!! Thursday May 11, 2023 is by Japanese Sosaku-hanga printmaker Hodaka Yoshida (1926-1995).

"Idetachi" from the 'Primitive Energy ' , series is a relief print, a?Sosaku-hanga color woodcut by Japanese printmaker Hodaka Yoshida, (1926-1995), done in 1956. The image measures 11-7/8 x 17-3/4 inches. This impression is pencil signed, titled, and dated by the artist in the lower margin. It was printed by the artist in no specific edition on a sheet of ivory kizuki-hosho paper that measures 16-1/4 x 22-3/4 inches. Our inventory number for this woodcut is 23388 .

The price of this large, scarce woodcut by Japanese Sosaku-hanga printmaker Hodaka Yoshida (1926-1995) is $850.00.

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In the 1950s Hodaka Yoshida created several works relating to folk art and religious art from Japan, Korea, and the pre-Columbian Americas. 1956 in particular was the year in which he produced several works that reflected these sensibilities, informed as well by his exploration of Western abstraction, and produced several images in very limited palettes that echoed the carved stone idols of all of these cultures. "Idetachi" could be entirely abstract, yet the shapes show similarities to bird-like and human-like forms and readily identifiable social charateristics: open-mawed beings in show-off stances, gathered as if to display their individual prowess.

Hodaka, son of printmakers Hiroshi and Fujio Yoshida and younger brother of printmaker Toshi Yoshida became a printmaker, against his father's wishes. He said "My father's opposition made me an abstract artist, I've always liked Miro and Klee, but I don't know that either has been a concrete influence...I started to make prints around 1950 and I've carved and printed my own from the beginning."

In an interview with author Ronald Robertson Yoshida discussed his process: "...I start with a vague idea or emotion which I try to visualize from various angles or points of view. Occasionally I succeed on fixing it as a clear image, but the original idea often develops into another object...An action inspires me with an idea which decides or stimulates the next action. Forms and colors thus produced are gradually organized into a picture...Sometimes, I find, quite by chance, in an automatic drawing, a part of a sketch or stains on paper that which I had been looking for, and then I begin to work it out into a definite image."

Hodaka Yoshida's imprint on the art world stood out from that of his family's in that his work went through several distinct stylistic periods, with influences of non-representational Abstraction and Cubism; to Buddhist and Primitive Japanese folk art; to New York pop art; and finally to the Surrealist, collage-like images of houses, street scenes, and nudes. At each turning point his work displayed his dedication to understanding fully the intricacies of each technique. He worked in etching, engraving, lithography, serigraphy, and photo-transfer techniques. At each evolution, Yoshida's work was embraced by critics worldwide.

Yoshida exhibited at the print biennals of Tokyo, Krakow, Ibiza, Ljubljana, and others. In 1981 he organized the major Japan Print Association exhibition, "25 Years of World Exhibition of Modern Print Art" in Tokyo, and in 1995, he was posthumously awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun . He?died in November of 1995.

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