Description
In this online talk, Dayun Oh, curator at the National Museum of Korea, explores the dynamic interaction between Chinese and Korean painting traditions. She focuses on a pair of landscape paintings and a pair of phoenix paintings that have been variously attributed to China and Korea over the last hundred years. Oh carefully analyzes the stylistic ambiguities to offer her account of the origins of the two paintings. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these painters reinterpreted and reinvented the painting styles of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) to create a unique Korean visual language based on the aesthetics of the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). A Q&A will follow, facilitated by Sunwoo Hwang, Korea Foundation Assistant Curator of Korean Art and Culture at the National Museum of Asian Art.
This program is part of the monthly lunchtime series Sneak Peek, where staff members and outside scholars share personal perspectives and new research related to the collections of the National Museum of Asian Art.
About the Speaker
Dayun Oh is a specialist in Korean painting and currently serves as a visiting curator at NMAA as part of a staff exchange program between the National Museum of Korea (NMK) and NMAA. She has served as a curator in the Fine Arts Division of NMK since 2016, where she was responsible for organizing major special exhibitions, including Through the Eyes of Joseon Painters: Real Scenery Landscapes of Korea (2019) and Evergreen in Winter Days (2021), the latter of which commemorated the donation of Kim Jeong-hui’s masterpiece. Prior to her tenure at NMK, she conducted extensive research on Korean art collections while working at the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation (OKCHF).
Landscape with figures, Korea or China, 16th–early 17th century, ink on silk panel, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Collection, Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1907.142
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