Zo Elephant 1931 by Hiroshi Yoshida Something New - Gallery Walls Doudine's compositional control keeps the

Doudine's compositional control keeps the image balanced and the figure clearly at its centre

It captures a fleeting

grounded in natural material — gives it an almost abstract quality at distance

and vivid colour palette are reproduced with exceptional sharpness and clarity

Zo Elephant 1931 by Hiroshi Yoshida Something New - Gallery Walls Doudine's compositional control keeps theZo presents an elephant with the quiet monumentality Hiroshi Yoshida brought to all living subjects during his 1931 travel series. The animal fills much of the picture plane, its textured hide rendered in the layered tonal washes that define the shin hanga method observational and warm, but filtered through the compositional restraint of Japanese printmaking. Yoshida's use of light to model form gives the figure unexpected sculptural presence, setting