Born in Paris, but having moved to Japan with his family when he was three years old, the artist Paul Jacoulet spent most of his life in Japan. He produced many works based on his travels through areas then under the Japanese Empire, such as Micronesia, Korea, and Manchuria. From 1929 to the 1930s, he often went to the Korean Peninsula to visit his mother, who after remarrying had moved to Seoul (which under Japanese rule was known as Keijo). This work shows Bukhan Mountain north of Seoul in the background, with an old man wearing traditional hanbok clothing and smoking a long pipe. The composition’s strongly contrasting elements give the work balance: the white hanbok and the brightly colored vegetation; the man’s rounded back and the jagged mountain.
(HIBINO Miyon)
Born in Paris, but having moved to Japan with his family when he was three years old, the artist Paul Jacoulet spent most of his life in Japan. He produced many works based on his travels through areas then under the Japanese Empire, such as Micronesia, Korea, and Manchuria. From 1929 to the 1930s, he often went to the Korean Peninsula to visit his mother, who after remarrying had moved to Seoul (which under Japanese rule was known as Keijo). This work shows Bukhan Mountain north of Seoul in the background, with an old man wearing traditional hanbok clothing and smoking a long pipe. The composition’s strongly contrasting elements give the work balance: the white hanbok and the brightly colored vegetation; the man’s rounded back and the jagged mountain.
(HIBINO Miyon)