{"id":351,"date":"2013-07-10T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/?page_id=351"},"modified":"2013-07-11T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T14:22:22","slug":"dragon-b","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/dragon-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/dragon_b.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-316\" alt=\"Dragon B\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/dragon_b.gif\" width=\"880\" height=\"509\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dragon B, <\/strong>Toshi Yoshida, woodblock print, 1955<\/p>\n<p>This woodcut relief print uses a simple black background, with the actual design utilizing a restrained palette of white and grey as elemental shapes.\u00a0 From 1952 to 1975, Toshi Yoshida created 289 non-objective prints, with this print being one of them.\u00a0 This print, falling near the beginning of this period in Toshi Yoshida\u2019s work, embodies both simplicity and directness. The design shows some sort of mythic beast, with the jagged lines embodying the qualities of lightning.\u00a0 Against the black-framed background, these lines stand out well, with the eyes being immediately drawn to the simplistic intricacies of the lines.\u00a0 All tips point to the circular structure on the left hand side of the print, which is where the two white electric dragons appear to be arriving at, giving a sense of unity amongst chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps the circular structure is the dragon itself, chasing its tail.\u00a0 That this structure would be the dragon is evidenced by its patterned texture.\u00a0 The white lines or lightning appear to have arrived quickly, enveloping the dragon at play.\u00a0 These white lines may be entangling the dragon, or possibly just giving it a visit, even playing along with the dragon as it goes on its way.\u00a0 If the dragon is being entangled, this suggests that the white lines, which may in fact be a dragon itself, appears to be winning, as it clearly has the upper hand, since the textured, grey dragon appears to be wounded. The confusion of the dragon with the lightning, both powerful entities, makes us question which is which, suggesting that each is interchangeable with one another.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>Ben Landsteiner and Pa Kou Vang<\/em><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\" \/>\n<h3 align=\"center\">Related Essays<\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Ben Landsteiner\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/dragon-b\/ben-landsteiner\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Benjamin Landsteiner<\/span><\/a> \/ \/ <a title=\"Pa Kou Vang\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/dragon-b\/pa-kou-vang\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Pa Kou Vang<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\" \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Gallery<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;color: #ff4500\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/cwis_policies\/personal_disclaimer.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\"><em>Disclaimer<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon B, Toshi Yoshida, woodblock print, 1955 This woodcut relief print uses a simple black background, with the actual design utilizing a restrained palette of white and grey as elemental shapes.\u00a0 From 1952 to 1975, Toshi Yoshida created 289 non-objective prints, with this print being one of them.\u00a0 This print, falling near the beginning of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/dragon-b\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dragon B&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"parent":296,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-full_width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-351","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions\/371"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}