Mount Geumgang
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Hallmarks of folk images of Mount Geumgang, as exemplified by this screen, are schematized style and composition. In this mesmerizing painting, the insistent repetition of bony white peaks, articulated in scrabbly outlines without added details or surface inflections, unifies the composition across the noncontinuous panels. The interplay in most scenes of the peculiar peaks with the rolling hills studded with pines alludes to a juxtaposition established by Jeong Seon a century earlier. Although the screen’s stylization seems quite removed from that of the eighteenth-century master, its articulation of the earthen hills—with washes and short horizontal strokes—echoes Jeong’s prototype, demonstrating the endurance of established traditions in representations of the Diamond Mountains.
Artwork Details
- 작자미상 금강산민화십폭병풍 조선
- 作者未詳 金剛山民畫十幅屛風 朝鮮
- Title: Mount Geumgang
- Artist: Unidentified artist
- Period: Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
- Date: 19th century
- Culture: Korea
- Medium: Ten-panel folding screen; ink on paper
- Dimensions: Image (each painting): 30 1/16 × 14 5/16 in. (76.3 × 36.3 cm)
Image (each panel): 60 3/4 × 17 13/16 in. (154.3 × 45.3 cm)
Overall: H. 61 in. × W. 14 ft. 6 13/16 in. (155 × 444 cm) - Classification: Screens
- Credit Line: Lent by Seoul History Museum
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art