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Kim Hong-do’s Album of scenes from Daily Life

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by Eunjung Shin on 31 January, 2010

in Arts, British Museum, History & heritage, Kim Hong-do

Eunjung Shin continues her exploration of some of the works you can find in the British Museum’s Korean collection
Throughout the five hundred years of the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), the everyday lives of the common people were rarely depicted in painting. On the contrary, landscape painting was the preferred genre, or other paintings with themes related [...]

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The Stone Buddha in the British Museum

16 December 2009 British Museum
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Eunjung Shin continues her survey of the treasures in the Korean gallery in the British Museum

As you enter the Korean gallery in the British Museum you might easily overlook the small stone Buddha at the entrance, his face turned modestly to the ground. If you want to see his expression, you have to sit down [...]

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The full moon jar in the British Museum

20 November 2009 British Museum
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Eunjung Shin commences a series of articles helping those unfamiliar with Korean art to understand some of the treasures in the Korean Gallery in the British Museum. Her first choice is the famous Moon Jar.

Whenever people ask me what the essential characteristic of Korean art is, I always answer: ‘naturalism’. The full moon jar [...]

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