An exhibit of painted screens (ch’aek-kori) from Korea are on display as part of an exhibit entitled “Beauty and Learning: Korean Painted Screens“.
. . . Organized by Soyoung Lee, assistant curator of the department of Asian art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s tightly focused exhibition “Beauty and Learning: Korean Painted Screens” places four marvelous examples of ch’aekkori painting alongside related decorative objects from the permanent collection. (from the NY Times article)
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in the fusion sa guk ‘damo’, the evil guy’s got one of these paintings in his room. i always wondered about it since i had never seen chaekgori before.
thanks, marm.
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Beautiful screen, by the way.
Considering how many Koreans live in NYC, the MET’s Korean exhibit is pathetic. It’s like one freak’in room. The art of Thailand has probably 6x more space devoted to it.
The Korean exhibit at LACMA (Los Angeles Museum of Art) is a lot better only because the Min family (yes, exiles of Queen Min’s family) settled in LA and donated a lot of pieces from their personal collections.
Korea would send more pieces abroad, but there just isn’t much left anymore. Some were destroyed by the Mongols when they invaded. Many have been looted by the Japanese (both in 1592 and 1905) and are locked up in private collections (thus not property of the Japanese government and not covered by the 1965 normalization treaty).
http://www.newsweek.com/id/48567?tid=relatedcl