{"id":386,"date":"2013-07-10T09:35:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/?page_id=386"},"modified":"2013-07-11T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T14:05:16","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/hope.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-319\" alt=\"Hope\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/hope.gif\" width=\"807\" height=\"565\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hope,<\/strong> Toshi Yoshida, woodblock print, 1967<\/p>\n<p>If forced to summarize Toshi Yoshida&#8217;s work in one word it would be &#8216;innovative&#8217;. He forever pushed his woodblock medium to the edge. Both of Toshi\u2019s parents, Hiroshi and Fujio, were artists who added printmaking to their range of work. Hiroshi had his own art studio where Toshi first began making woodblock prints that resembled his father\u2019s work.\u00a0 After Toshi\u2019s father died in 1950, Toshi began focusing more on abstract prints than on the Yoshida landscape tradition.\u00a0 From 1952 to 1975 Toshi designed more than 250 abstract prints.\u00a0 All of his abstract prints varied widely and the graphical themes developed over time. For example<strong>,<\/strong> &#8220;Hope<strong>\u201d<\/strong> 1967<strong>,<\/strong> is a powerful example reminiscent of microscopic single celled organisms and macro celestial designs simultaneously. The subject matter is relatively minimal<strong>.<\/strong> The force is in the texture, color and exploration of the line. The variation of graphical themes really emerges in \u201cHope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>Caroline Wilkman and Latravis Henry<\/em><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\" \/>\n<h3 align=\"center\">Related Essays<\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Latravis Henry\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/hope\/latravis-henry\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Latravis Henry<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\" \/>\n<h4 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>Hope, Toshi Yoshida, woodblock print, 1967 If forced to summarize Toshi Yoshida&#8217;s work in one word it would be &#8216;innovative&#8217;. He forever pushed his woodblock medium to the edge. Both of Toshi\u2019s parents, Hiroshi and Fujio, were artists who added printmaking to their range of work. Hiroshi had his own art studio where Toshi first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/hope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"parent":296,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-full_width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-386","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/386\/revisions\/612"}],"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=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}