Jacoulet’s art – Common Bones 凡骨

Paul Jacoulet’s art

Growing up in a cosmopolitan household in Tokyo, Jacoulet was exposed to a diverse mix of Western and Japanese elite from various fields. At eleven, he made his only visit to Paris, where he encountered works of European masters.

Upon returning to Japan, he briefly studied oil painting under Seiki Kuroda at the White Horse Institute, then the center of Western modernist painting in Japan.However, Jacoulet’s artistic trajectory took a decisive turn when he encountered a woodblock print by Utamaro Kitagawa, igniting a lifelong passion for ukiyo-e, the traditional Japanese woodblock printing technique. He was later introduced to renowned traditional Japanese painters Terukata and Shōhen Ikeda, under whom he honed his skills.

The ukiyo-e tradition
浮世絵伝承

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influences
Japanese and western
和洋の影響

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International exhibitions
国際展

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