Untitled (from the series 'Primitive Energy Prints') by Hodaka Yoshida

Untitled (from the series Primitive Energy Prints) by Hodaka Yoshida

Untitled (from the series 'Primitive Energy Prints')

Hodaka Yoshida

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Title

Untitled (from the series 'Primitive Energy Prints')

 
Artist

Hodaka Yoshida

  1926 - 1995 (biography)
Year
1956  
Technique
color woodcut with gauffrage 
Image Size
13 3/4 x 19 3/16" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
Prints from this period were not done in any specific "edition". 
Annotations
pencil dated beneath signature 
Reference
 
Paper
ivory kizuki-hosho 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
23389 
Price
$925.00 
Description

A dynamic woodcut abstraction done in blacks and grays in 1956 by Hodaka Yoshida. The white areas have blind-embossed gaufrage elements. Done in 1956, after Yoshida had traveled to the United States, Cuba, and Mexico which left a deep impression on the artist. Between 1955 and 1963 he did a series of woodcuts he called "Primitive Energy Prints", abstractions of the primitive in Pre-Columbian forms acheiving a feeling of motion.

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 Ronald Robertson Yoshida talked about 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."

 

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