Joseon Dynasty 15th century landscape painting ‘Bang Gwak Hui Chu Gyeong Landscape Painting’. Height 108.1cm, Width 86.2cm. /Fukuoka City Art Museum
A 15th-century masterpiece landscape painting comparable to An Gyeon’s ‘Dreaming Dreams’ (1447), which is considered a monumental masterpiece of early Joseon Dynasty painting, has been unveiled in Japan.
This is a special exhibition titled ‘Painting of the Joseon Dynasty – Landscapes, Figures, Flowers and Birds’, which opened on the 13th and runs until October 22nd at the Fukuoka City Museum of Art, Japan. The museum said, “Recent research has progressed and it has been revealed that many paintings from the Joseon Dynasty were included among the paintings that were previously recognized as Chinese paintings,” adding, “44 paintings from the Joseon Dynasty, including newly discovered works, including landscape paintings, portrait paintings, and flower and bird paintings. “We divide it into categories and introduce them by genre,” he said.
In particular, the first painting hung at the entrance to the exhibition hall, ‘Fang Guo Xiu Qing Landscape Painting’, is a large-scale landscape painting from the 15th century painted in the style of Guo Hui, the greatest painter of the Northern Song Dynasty. Height 108.1cm, Width 86.2cm. In the middle of the screen, a huge mountain rises upward from the bottom. There is fog on both sides of the mountain, and people can be seen walking along the road in the lower right. Domestic painting history experts said, “There are very few landscape paintings left in the early Joseon Dynasty, and furthermore, there are no landscape paintings in Korea that can be definitively dated to the 15th century, and there was only one painting, An Gyeon’s ‘Dongyudowondo,’ owned by Tenri University in Japan.” “It is surprising that there was a 15th-century Joseon landscape painting in Japan in a completely different style from ‘Mongyudowondo,’” they said in unison.
An Gyeon’s “Mongyudowondo” is known as a monumental painting of the early Joseon Dynasty. The four views depicting the real world and Mureungdowon are separated but visually harmonious. It is Korea’s oldest existing landscape painting and is a work that comprehensively embodies the three arts of poetry, calligraphy, and painting. It is owned by Tenri University in Japan./National Museum of Korea
Jang Jin-seong, a professor in the Department of Archeology and Art History at Seoul National University (painting history), said, “The Japanese private collector thought it was a painting from the Ming Dynasty, but Professor Masaaki Itakura of the University of Tokyo revealed that it was a painting from the 15th century of the Joseon Dynasty, and Korean researchers who discovered the work also agree,” adding, “The history of Korean painting “It’s an important discovery to write about again,” he said. This painting was featured in an exhibition at Yamato Bunkakan in Nara, Japan in 2016, but it did not receive much attention because it was such a small exhibition, but it is gaining attention through this exhibition.
Professor Jang said, “It is a painting that overturns our common sense of early Joseon painting,” and “It is a painting that shows that there was a new area in landscape painting in the early Joseon Dynasty.” “The 16th century landscape paintings that remain in Korea are in the ‘biased composition’ style where the composition is biased to one side, but this painting is in the traditional landscape painting style of Kwak Hee, with a central focus and a mountain in the middle.”
A portion of the 15th century ‘Bang Guo Hui Chu Jing Landscape Painting’ unveiled at the Fukuoka City Museum of Art, Japan. /Fukuoka City Art Museum
Oh Da-yeon, a curator at the National Museum of Korea, said, “It is a different style from ‘Mongyudowondo,’ which was drawn horizontally on a scroll, and is quite similar to Kwak Hee’s masterpiece, ‘Jochundo (1072).’ “It is similar to Kwak Hui-pung’s landscape painting painted by Lee Jae, a Ming Dynasty painter in the early 15th century, but the scenes and figures on the left and right sides of the painting are from the Joseon Dynasty, so it is a Korean painting, and the period is presumed to be the late 15th century.” This means that after the 16th century, the painting style and composition of landscape paintings became more Joseon-style, so they can be identified as the 15th century. Professor Jang said, “There is no painting in China that authentically inherited Kwak Hee’s ‘Jo Chun-do’ style from the 15th century, so it is remarkable that it was interpreted in our own way once it entered Joseon.”
A portion of the 15th century ‘Bang Guo Hui Chu Jing Landscape Painting’ unveiled at the Fukuoka City Museum of Art, Japan. /Fukuoka City Art Museum
In addition to this painting, newly revealed paintings of the Joseon Dynasty, such as ‘Painting of a Court Lady’ and ‘Snow Landscape Painting’, are on display. People are flocking to see the exhibition ‘The Beauty of Sublime Faith – Buddhist Art of the Goryeo and Joseon Dynasties’ held at the Kyushu National Museum in Fukuoka Prefecture. In connection with the two exhibitions, a symposium attended by Korean and Japanese experts will be held at the Fukuoka City Museum of Art on the 8th and 9th of next month.
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2023-09-21 23:15:00
