7/26/2023 0 Comments Traditional landscape art![]() Dangun is seen as the predecessor of the Korean people. They have their origins in two famous figures in the history of Korea: Dangun and Munmu. Often depicted are the mountain spirit and dragon king motifs. Mountains were also believed to be the territory of spirits and dragons, as well as rivers and all other bodies of water. Traditionally, people would go there for hunting and gathering, ancestral rites, religious and ceremonial practices. Because of this, mountains have been integrated in culture, mythology, heritage and identity. The Korean peninsula exists for more than seventy percent of mountains. In 1998 North Korea opened it to South Korean tourists and artists, which made it possible to visit and once more be inspired by this often depicted and much admired muse. For over 50 years, South Koreans could not visit this beloved natural site. Mount Geumgangsan, located in North Korea, has not only been a source of inspiration for Jeong Seon, but for a lot of Korean artists. His approach and love for this natural beauty, still influences and inspires Korean artists from South and North Korea to this day. You can see them at Gansong Art Museum and the National Museum of Korea. In total, Jeong painted around 100 pictures of Diamond Mountain, which still exist to this day. His most famous painting, Geumgangsan jeondo, is considered a national treasure. ![]() The next year, he went back and painted another 30. In 1711, he travelled to Mount Geumgangsan (Diamond mountain), and created a famous album consisting of 13 paintings of this beloved Korean mountain range. He worked with ink on paper and Oriental-style water drawings, among other mediums. Jeong Seon (1676-1759) made Korean landscapes hugely popular, and is known to be the father of the Korean True-View landscape. And because artists were also painting more realistic depictions of people, it gives us a historic glimpse into everyday life in Joseon Korea. ![]() This is also called the ‘Koreanization’ of Korean art.Īfter traditional painting styles became even more realistic, a style of landscape painting known as 'True View' became a national style in Korea. When the Korean people started to reclaim their own historical and cultural heritage, they also rediscovered their country's beautiful nature. The Koreanization of Korean artīefore the 18th century, landscape paintings depicted famous scenery in China or were scenes of harmony imagined by the artist. His distinctive style shaped the direction of the landscape genre during the early Joseon period, but there was another Korean artist that influenced this genre. It is considered his masterpiece and has gotten much appreciation. Using an ink and colour silk scroll style. In the 15th century, court artist An Gyeon drew a landscape painting for Prince Anpyeong known as 'Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land'. Using non-Chinese techniques, painting Korean landscapes and scenes of common people in their daily life. But certain painters attempted to develop a distinctly Korean approach. Paintings of the Joseon period largely imitated northern Chinese painting styles. Moving Korean painting in a more secular direction. Due to the spread of Confucianism, which stimulated a renewal of the arts, and the decline of Buddhism as the dominant culture. Landscape painting evolved as a major genre during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). ![]() His most famous work is a depiction of the Yesong River and one of the Chonsuwon Pavilion. Like Yi Nyong, a well known landscape painter of this era. But during the Koryŏ period (918-1392), this slightly changed when artists began painting more realistic. These depictions were not always accurate reproductions, but an essence of the artist's reality. For example in the 1960s land artists such as Richard Long radically changed the relationship between landscape and art by creating artworks directly within the landscape.Landscape painting is a tradition that goes back a long way in East Asia. The genre expanded to include urban and industrial landscapes, and artists began to use less traditional media in the creation of landscape works. In the second half of the twentieth century, the definition of landscape was challenged. The baton then passed to France where, in the hands of the impressionists, landscape painting became the vehicle for a revolution in Western painting (modern art) and the traditional hierarchy of the genres collapsed. Britain produced two outstanding contributors to this phenomenon in John Constable and J.M.W. The nineteenth century, however, saw a remarkable explosion of naturalistic landscape painting, partly driven it seems by the notion that nature is a direct manifestation of God, and partly by the increasing alienation of many people from nature by growing industrialisation and urbanisation.
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