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Japonisme


A Personal Exorcism & Realisation 

Thurs 12 Nov - Sun 31 January 

A solo Exhibition by MIKE PERT

A multi-layered mix of paintings and collages portraying traditional and modern Japan.

"I have a very long-standing fascination with Japanese art, design and textiles and its influence on Western Art, after that once very closed country opened up to the rest of the world."

However, my father had been a Prisoner of War of the Japanese, during the Second World War following the fall of Singapore.  As a result, my burgeoning interest in most things Japanese was not exactly encouraged or met with enthusiasm.

So …………… time will out ………..I suppose in a way a personal exorcism.

There is I hope a mixture here of paintings and collages that portray a bit of traditional and modern Japan and my personal interest and enjoyment. The collages shown here are produced by printing collected images individually on overhead projector film.  Then the fun starts.  I arrange the images overlaying one on top of the other until I am satisfied with a composition then, trying to remember the layout, I spray mount the different layers of images on a canvas board. Some have only two or three layers, some as many as seven or eight.

Japonisme, first coined in 1872 by French art critic Philippe Burty, describes the influence Japanese art, fashion, architecture, and landscaping had on the Western Art world after the forced reopening of Japanese trade in the 1850s. Art forms such as Ukiyo-e, woodblock printing, dramatic stylisation as well as their art’s flat plane and bold colours on muted compositions inspired impressionism, art nouveau, and the aesthetic movement of the 19th and 20th centuries.  And of course, there is world wide recognition of The  Great Wave print by Hokusai which swept across the world to become an eye catching and iconic image. 
To suddenly open after years of seclusion from the rest of the world, the influence of Japanese design on the West has been immeasurable since those first trade ships arrived at their shores. Even today both ancient and contemporary Japanese design values play a big role in all forms of media the rest of the world consumes whether it be art, television, literature and more. 
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