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Poetry in Clay at the Metropolitan Museum

Drum-Shaped Bottle with Decoration of Rows of Dots. Mid-15th century. Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Treasure no. 1423
Drum-Shaped Bottle with Decoration of Rows of Dots. Mid-15th century. Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Treasure no. 1423. Currently on show at the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from the Leeum. Image courtesy of the Met and Leeum

Poetry in Clay, the exhibition of Buncheong Ceramics from the Leeum Museum currently at the Metropolitan Museum is seriously worth a visit, with some beautiful pots. Interesting that they also juxtapose a couple of 20th century paintings. Kim Whanki’s dot paintings really do look like the dot decoration on one of the pots #

Curator Soyoung Lee talks about the exhibition in this Met video: