Korea
Art from Korea, from Silla gold and Goryeo celadon to Joseon painting and moon jars, Dansaekhwa monochrome and video art.
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Silla goldsmiths of the 5th and 6th centuries made crowns hung with jade and tree-like branches, and the 8th-century Seokguram Grotto shelters a serene granite Buddha. Goryeo potters in the 12th century developed a jade-green celadon with inlaid designs of cranes and clouds, a technique known as sanggam. The Joseon dynasty favoured restraint: round white porcelain "moon jars".
Joseon painters also looked hard at their own country. Jeong Seon painted real Korean mountains in his true-view landscapes, including Inwangsan after Rain (1751), and Kim Hong-do captured wrestlers, dancers and village work with humour. In the 1970s the Dansaekhwa painters, among them Park Seo-Bo, Chung Chang-Sup and Lee Ufan, made quiet monochromes through repeated marks and absorbed pigment. Nam June Paik pioneered video art with works like TV Buddha (1974), and Lee Bul and Do Ho Suh, with his fabric replicas of homes, work across sculpture and installation.
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