{"id":22160,"date":"2022-11-16T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=22160"},"modified":"2022-11-16T16:40:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:40:18","slug":"the-art-of-paul-binnie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/11\/16\/the-art-of-paul-binnie\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Paul Binnie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/binnie03.jpg\" alt=\"binnie03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Dragon and Demon (1997).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More Japanese art, although the artist responsible happens to be Scottish. One of Paul Binnie&#8217;s prints appeared here in January in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/01\/26\/ten-views-of-the-itsukushima-shrine\/\">a post about the Itsukushima Shrine<\/a> together with <em>ukiyo-e<\/em> views by other artists. Binnie studied print-making with a Japanese master of the medium in the 1990s, and many of his prints that follow traditional <em>ukiyo-e<\/em> subjects are now valued by collectors. He also has a nice line in homoerotic portraiture, which is what you see here, a few examples from <a href=\"https:\/\/binniecatalogue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this collectors&#8217; site<\/a>. Most of my selections are those styled like his traditional prints but you&#8217;ll find plenty of paintings and drawings in the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/binniecatalogue.com\/subject\/men\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Handsome Men (Bidanshi)<\/a>&#8221; section.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/binnie02.jpg\" alt=\"binnie02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Celadon Censer (2004).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/binnie07.jpg\" alt=\"binnie07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Yoshitoshi&#8217;s Ghosts (2004).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/binnie01.jpg\" alt=\"binnie01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Bang Bang (2011).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/binnie04.jpg\" alt=\"binnie04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Hokusai&#8217;s Waterfalls (2006).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/binnie05.jpg\" alt=\"binnie05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Katana (2007).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/binnie06.jpg\" alt=\"binnie06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Maple Leaves (1994).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-gay-artists-archive\/\">The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon and Demon (1997). More Japanese art, although the artist responsible happens to be Scottish. One of Paul Binnie&#8217;s prints appeared here in January in a post about the Itsukushima Shrine together with ukiyo-e views by other artists. Binnie studied print-making with a Japanese master of the medium in the 1990s, and many of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/11\/16\/the-art-of-paul-binnie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Paul Binnie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: The art of Paul Binnie","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[12038],"class_list":["post-22160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay","tag-paul-binnie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5Lq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}