Jacoulet, Paul (1902 - 1960 )
Born in Paris, Paul Jacoulet grew up in Tokyo, where his father taught at Tokyo University. Fluent in French, Japanese and English, Jacoulet began to work as an interpreter in 1920. He created his first woodblock print in 1934. As an artist, Jacoulet was most productive between 1939 and 1960. During this time, he drew inspiration from his travels in Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Many of his designs portray subjects in the traditional clothing of their home country. During World War II, Jacoulet moved to Karuizawa, where he waited out the war selling vegetables and poultry. With the end of the war, Jacoulet rapidly rose to fame - perhaps as the result of eager self-promotion - and garnered fans such as Queen Elizabeth II and Pope Pius XII. Jacoulet's work stands out as strikingly original in style, but also innovative in technique. Combining traditional woodblock printing methods with techniques he developed himself, he pushed the limits of his medium. With only 166 known works, Jacoulet prints are relatively rare and greatly sought after.
Sosaku Hanga | Post-WWII Japanese Prints
The Sosaku Hanga or “creative print” movement emerged in the changing Japan of the early 20th century. The movement arose from a central tenant: the artist must participate in every aspect of production. As artists shed the traditional delegation of ukiyo-e production and explored each role themselves, the act of printmaking adopted a more spontaneous, expressive attitude. Artists explored with the knife, chisel, woodblock, and ink to push to the boundaries of their medium. Originally excluded from Japan’s formal art world, Sosaku Hanga began on the pages of magazines. It was not until 1919 that the first Sosaku Hanga exhibition opened in Tokyo. Ranging from figural to abstract, the movement flourished after WWII, and found a new, eager audience among American GIs. In this collection, Ronin Gallery presents masters of Sosaku Hanga such as Onchi, Ono, Munakata, Saito, Sekino, and Mori, as well as other post-war Japanese printmakers.
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Jacoulet, Paul
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