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1. 1 2020-10-12T11:36:21-07:00 USC Pacific Asia Museum d5c1cdb8968a27aeb8620e4c0c5fc7e36e111c30 Introduction: The Pacific Islands and Paul Jacoulet USC Pacific Asia Museum 22 google_maps 2020-12-24T13:23:22-08:00 USC Pacific Asia Museum d5c1cdb8968a27aeb8620e4c0c5fc7e36e111c30

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• 1 2020-10-12T11:44:51-07:00 Closeness to Nature 19 gallery 2020-12-24T13:02:25-08:00 What is your favorite Jacoulet portrait? How do you interpret the subjects of his prints? What do you think Jacoulet wants you to feel when you see his work?
  
  Jacoulet’s focus on paradisal leisure and adornments evoke this theme of his subjects’ proximity to nature as a sign of “primitiveness”: primitive ways that inferred a natural progression to civilization through colonization. Between his watercolors and prints his subjects shift back and forth between melancholy and mischief as Jacoulet interprets their collective shift into “civilization” at the time of Japanese colonization. Overall Jacoulet provides a snapshot of Western understanding of the Pacific Islanders in the 20^th century and how his art contributed to the sentiment of disappeared communities.
  
  
  
  
  
• 1 2020-10-12T11:37:52-07:00 Leisure of Paradise 7 plain 1025343 2020-12-24T12:33:36-08:00 Jacoulet’s portraits provide his honest interpretation of an ending paradise. During his travels through the Pacific islands tourists commonly viewed the islanders as doomed for extinction. His portraits envelope this theme by displaying the beauty of these islands and their people. Part of this beauty is the leisure of his subjects. His beautiful subjects are often depicted sitting and lounging surrounded by beautiful clothes, colors, and flowers, creating a sense of a transitory beauty floating into extinction.
  
  How does this portrait of paradisal leisure compare to the intricate carvings of a ceremonial object?
  
  PREMIER AMOUR. YAP, QUEST CAROLINES 
  Paul Jacoulet
  Japan, c. 1937
  Woodblock print 
  Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Child
  1982.133.15
  Entitled “First Love” this portrait depicts a young Yapese girl covered only in a large skirt and garland flowers. The background is a mixture of pink pigments, wax, and silver mica. This young Yapese known only as Mio also appears in another Jacoulet portrait entitled YAGOUROUGH ET MIO .
  
  
  MEDICINE CANOE
  Solomon Islands, c. 1870s
  Dark wood canoe with carvings and tied together with twine
  Estate of John C.V. Lucas
  2001.15.1
  This ceremonial object is made of dark wood with geometrical and rectilinear carvings revealing the light brown areas underneath. Sparse use of colors with preferences of black and red are common features of artistic styles in the Solomon Islands. The end tips of the canoe have a carving of a face on one side and a spider pattern on the other. In central Solomons these carvings often serve both as ornamentation and as guardians of canoes that presumably represent spirits.