Toshi Yoshida — Camouflaged Tigers | Sosaku-hanga Print

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Toshi Yoshida — Camouflaged Tigers | Sosaku-hanga PrintToshi Yoshida (19111995) was a Japanese printmaker of the celebrated Yoshida family and one of the great Ssaku hanga wildlife artists of the 20th century. Son of Hiroshi Yoshida, he developed a bold, graphic style for rendering tigers, panthers, and other large animals works of raw physical presence and striking compositional power. His wildlife prints remain among the most highly sought after works of Japanese mid century printmaking. Printed as a

1177 CE) by the Persian Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar (c

and later synthetic abstraction collectively redefined what art could be

Printed on Hahnemühle German Etching paper — the same stock museum studios use — through a twelve-ink archival pigment process that holds colour the way memory holds detail: precisely

Championed by publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō

radical colour choices

he shaped the visual culture of the Victorian age

Louis Valtat (1869–1952) was a French painter who anticipated Fauvism before the term existed — producing works of bold colour

he produced paintings

obsessive pen line that has no equivalent in Western graphic art

translated into a contemporary fine art giclée medium

Masters of Japanese ink painting — from Sesshū Tōyō in the 15th century to anonymous Edo-period brushwork artists — approached their subjects with a rigorous economy: the minimum of strokes necessary to capture bamboo

her intimate scenes of women and children brought a new psychological attention to everyday subjects

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