Hiroshi Yoshida “Worldly Visions”

Hiroshi Yoshida “Worldly Visions”

Ronin Gallery

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This January, Ronin Gallery will welcome the New Year with an exhibition of the masterworks of Hiroshi Yoshida. Although widely traveled and knowledgeable of Western aesthetics, Hiroshi Yoshida maintained an allegiance to traditional Japanese techniques and traditions. He was attracted by the calmer moments of nature, imbuing his landscape prints with coolness, inviting meditation and setting a soft, peaceful mood. Drawn from a private Midwestern collection, the exhibition Hiroshi Yoshida: Worldly Visions presents both his revered views of Japan and those from his international travels.

Born in Kyushu in 1876, Yoshida studied Western-style painting, winning many exhibition prizes and making several trips to the U.S., Europe and North Africa to sell his watercolors and oil paintings. Yet, in 1920 Yoshida began to work as a woodblock print artist. It was not long before he became one of the most prominent and popular of Japan’s color woodblock print artists. In 1925, Yoshida broke from convention and started his own workshop, specializing in landscapes, both inspired by his native country and his travels abroad. In 1930, he participated in the first major Shin Hanga exhibition, hosted in Toledo, Ohio. His later prints increasingly express his passion for exploration, presenting views of Korea, China, the U.S. and Europe.

While Yoshida is considered a member of the Shin Hanga or “new print” movement, after 1925, Yoshida shed the division of labor so characteristic of traditional Japanese woodblock printing. He became involved in every aspect of the process—designing the print, carving his own blocks, and printing his own work— channeling the spirit of the Sosaku Hanga, or “creative print,” movement in his distinctly Shin Hanga style. Yoshida’s prints are widely collected and housed in many major museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the British Museum.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing

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