{"id":390,"date":"2013-07-10T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/?page_id=390"},"modified":"2013-07-11T09:12:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T14:12:52","slug":"nonsense-mythology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/nonsense-mythology\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonsense Mythology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/nonsense_myth.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-322\" alt=\"Nonsense Myth\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/nonsense_myth.gif\" width=\"577\" height=\"757\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nonsense Mythology, <\/strong>Hodaka Yoshida, photo screen print, 1969<\/p>\n<p>Although Hodaka Yoshida came from a family of artists, he was not encouraged to become an artist himself. However, Hodaka found a double freedom in learning abstract oil painting and in defying his family\u2019s plan for him.\u00a0 Eventually turning to woodblock printing, he would learn to integrate with it multiple media, including photography and magazine cut-outs.\u00a0 He was influenced by Mayan art while in Mexico because of the primitive life power he saw\u00a0 represented.\u00a0 The Japanese gardens of Kyoto also influenced him because of the ever-changing visual perspective relying on the viewer.\u00a0 In 1963 he visited a Pop Art exhibition in New York City and began his own unique interpretation of that.\u00a0 Hodaka then made a series of multimedia prints with a theme of mythology from the years 1966-1978.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nonsense Mythology<\/em> explores his ideas on the origin and flow of primitive human culture.\u00a0 He defines mythology as a \u201cmysterious story,\u201d or a sort of fundamental truth.\u00a0 The images reflect this sense of mystery, using themes of alien modern values, shocked emotions, instability, and ominous uncertainty within the Japanese mind at the time.\u00a0 The sexy females and leering, shadowy men suggest the primitive power of human sexuality and the irrational mentality behind it.\u00a0 The title is written in <em>katakana<\/em>, used in Japanese for foreign words, to connect the images with Western culture.\u00a0 The orange squares form a cross, also denoting foreignness.\u00a0 The divided squares, in Japanese culture, suggest a Buddhist meditative mandala.\u00a0 This is Hodaka\u2019s first screen print and yet it is as if printed by a person expert in this technique.<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><em>Heather D&#8217;Evelyn and Charlie Hoffman<\/em><\/div>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\" \/>\n<h3 align=\"center\">Related Essays<\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Heather D\u2019Evelyn\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/nonsense-mythology\/heather-develyn\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Heather D&#8217;Evelyn<\/span><\/a> \/ \/ <a title=\"Charlie Hoffman\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/nonsense-mythology\/charlie-hoffman\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Charlie Hoffman<\/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>Nonsense Mythology, Hodaka Yoshida, photo screen print, 1969 Although Hodaka Yoshida came from a family of artists, he was not encouraged to become an artist himself. However, Hodaka found a double freedom in learning abstract oil painting and in defying his family\u2019s plan for him.\u00a0 Eventually turning to woodblock printing, he would learn to integrate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/nonsense-mythology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nonsense Mythology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"parent":296,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-full_width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-390","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390","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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390\/revisions\/620"}],"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=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}