Color Trip: Yoshida Hodaka’s Modern Prints

The Asian Art Museum brings together almost 50 of influential Japanese artist Yoshida Hodaka’s works in his first ever solo exhibition in the United States. Yoshida Hodaka (1926–1995) was born into the Yoshida line of Japanese artists famed for their travel and nature prints that blended Japanese and Western artistic styles. A rebel from the start, Hodaka embraced traditional woodblock print technique while forging his own unique style of fantastic, imagined landscapes inspired by his globe-spanning journeys, photography, poetry, astrology and ancient art. Producing colorful images with modern print processes like photoetching, Hodaka created a new aesthetic that transformed Japanese printmaking and paved the way for the next generation of his artistic family.