HIROSHI YOSHIDA

 

Post -332 (This artist was published in 2018 -it is now being republished on this Blog site.

SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) was a Japanese painter and wood-block print-maker. He began his artistic training with his adoptive father. Hiroshi Yoshida is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style. Around the age of twenty, he moved to Kyoto, and later to Tokyo. Yoshida travelled widely across the world. He is known for the excellent depiction of local architecture and people, but yet maintained his Japanese flavour.

Yoshida, From 1920, started giving attention to print making. His wood-block style prints are characterized by neat edge delineation of the form, and nearly shade-less in-fill of colour into the formed zones. He adapted, both, the oil and water, colours in art, He was the key person in the Meiji Fine Arts Society.

Yoshida had excellent sense of colour contrast, and capacity to form complex composition of visual elements. His, this talent was nearly unmatched. He was an artist of the industrial age and wars, but these have not affected his art subjects.

 

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