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Mount Geumgang
Not on view
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.
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