Korean Painting

Korean painting includes paintings made in Korea or by overseas Koreans on all surfaces. It includes art as old as the petroglyphs through post-modern conceptual art using transient forms of light. Calligraphy rarely occurs in oil paintings and is dealt with in the brushwork entry, Korean calligraphy.

Read more about Korean Painting:  Introduction, Goguryeo Painters, Goryeo Dynasty Painting, Joseon Dynasty Painting, Artists Under The Japanese Invasion and Occupation Period, Major 20th Century Korean Artists, The New Wave of Korean Art, 21st C. Korean Artists

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    “Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness, to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.”
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