Reading Report Artistic Tradition and the Depiction of Reality

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A genre of Korean landscape painting referred to as true-view existed in Korea that flowered the Korean culture during the long period between the 17th to 19th centuries. The article by Song-Mi, Yi. "Artistic Tradition and the Depiction of Reality: True-View Landscape Painting of the Choson Dynasty”, reviews the long span of the Choson dynasty between 1392 1910 as a significant historical period.
According to the author, this period highlighted the general cultural efflorescence of monarchs, especially King Yongjo and his grandson Chongjo that is a true representation of the Korean culture and their historical identity. The article examines the development of flowering of true- view landscape painting of Choson as a symbolic representation of the real world. The Choson landscape painting was known for its conventional style because of its brush technique.
New development emerged during this period; painters started using native techniques to depict sceneries that gave birth to the true-view landscape artistic expressions. The author highlights specific examples like “Clearing After Rain On The Mount Inwang” by Chongson as part of the new artistic expression that used bold, sweeping brush strokes in dark ink, to portray rocky faces of the mountain after the rain
The article further classifies real scenery paintings into four categories of the divine, marvelous, strange and skillful scene to show the distinction of the disparities of real- view landscape paintings. According to the author, to know these differences, we need to understand the realm of these sceneries. Reviewing Choson dynasty is significant because of its detail...