Hodaka YOSHIDA
1926–1995, Japan
Biography
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Yoshida Hodaka was born in 1926, into a family of artists. Hodaka was not encouraged to follow an artistic career, but rather, one in science. In fact his father, Yoshida Hiroshi, was shocked when he learned that Hodaka wanted to be an abstract painter. Following his father’s death in 1950, and after a painting career, Hodaka turned to printmaking, and in the words of Eugene M. Skibbe (A Japanese Legacy, Four generations of Yoshida family artists) "emerged as a leader among Japanese print artists. Hodaka’s styles, while always his own, drew from post WWII Expressionism, Pop, Photorealism, and Color Field abstraction.” Hodaka died suddenly and unexpectedly in 1995.
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