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12020-10-12T11:44:51-07:00Closeness to Nature19gallery2020-12-24T13:02:25-08:00What 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 20th century and how his art contributed to the sentiment of disappeared communities.
12020-10-12T11:43:53-07:00Aesthetic versus Utility6plain2020-12-17T15:45:32-08:00Jacoulet’s work focuses on the details of language, clothing, adornments, and physiognomy that detail the complex cultures of the Pacific, capturing ethnographic and historical images of Pacific people and occasionally the objects they use daily. Objects of use in the Pacific were often produced with great intention, some bearing designs and motifs with a religious and spiritual nature. Yet in Jacoulet’s portraits these objects are often absent or become purely ornamental, furthering Jacoulet’s aesthetic ideals of paradisal leisure.
How do you think the aesthetic objects in Jacoulet’s portraits compare to original material objects of the Pacific Islands?
VENDEUSE DE MANGUES. MARIANES (MANGO SELLER) Paul Jacoulet Japan, c. 1939 Woodblock print Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Child 1982.133.19
WATER VESSEL Vanuatu Coconut shell wrapped in vegetable fiber rope and marked with white paint Gift of Harlan Givelber 1990.53.39
