Artist of the floating world

This blog I as response of thinking activity of artist of floating world

About Author

Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors writing in English. His first two novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World, were noted for their explorations of Japanese identity and their elegiac tone. He thereafter explored other genres, including science fiction and historical fiction. He has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize four times, winning the prize in 1989 for his novel The Remains of the Day, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993. Salman Rushdie praised the novel as Ishiguro's masterpiece, in which he "turned away from the Japanese settings of his first two novels and revealed that his sensibility was not rooted in any one place, but capable of travel and metamorphosis".^[1] Time named Ishiguro's science fiction novel Never Let Me Go as the best novel of 2005 and one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.

About the text

An Artist of the Floating World (1986)^[1] is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions, rendered politically suspect in the context of post-War Japan. The novel ends with the narrator expressing good will for the young white-collar workers on the streets at lunchbreak. The novel also deals with the role of people in a rapidly changing political environment and with the assumption and denial of guilt.

in the task is given as per below.

 Debeat on using of art

1.Art for art sake/aesthic delight

2.Art for earning money

3.art for nationalism

4. art for propaganda and government

5.art for poor people

As  the text is basically deals with the idea of art so here I give the answer realted to the idea of art.In the play there are various angle of art. Which is covered by Kazuo ishiguro in which Firstly he talks about that art is for art sake  as we relate it to text so it can be seen that when masuji was a child at that time he has no any demands he is painting  because I gives him  aesthetic delight, by that it can be understand that in childhood masuji draw painting because it is stress relief or enjoyable activity for him. But as the novel moving further it is  seen that masuji goes at the class of his teacher seiji moriyama  where he learned  the painting name ukiyoe from that direction masuji goes towards the earning money for business and he go at Takeda firm where the purpose  of art move from aesthetic to business.

Now Masuji met Chisu Matsuda who is nationalist and because of his inspiration towards nation Masuji changed his purpose from Art :For Business to Art: for nationalism .

Then it comes towards art for propaganda  and power of government  and because of this aspect masuji became tolerant  for kuroda as well as many artists of that time .

From this aspect of nationalism Masuji changed his attitude towards art for poor people and he drew the paint of complency to eyes to the horizon .