Landscape M-A

Yoshida Hodaka (self-published)

1972

Zinc photoetching and woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A stylized landscape depicts a body of water with horizontal lines, framed by dark, textured mountains under a gradient sky with a bright moon. The foreground features rolling hills and a road. In 1970, Yoshida Hodaka began his landscape prints, drawing inspiration from pop art. In Japan, he was a pioneer of photo montages and had combined lithographs, silkscreen, and zinc relief with photo transfer techniques since 1966 in his mythology prints. His landscapes are intended to portray the devastating effects that pollution has on the environment. To achieve this, he cut pictures from magazines and assembled them as a collage, which he then photographed. The final image was created using a photoetched zinc plate inked in black for the detailed linework, while color was added through the use of woodblocks. Gallery G252 Gift o