Butterflies and Peony
Butterflies and Peony flowers
Painting of Peony flower on lower right side of the painting and butterflies flying upper left side and sitting on a Peony.
Nam Kye-u (Korean, 1811–1888)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45063
Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
Anonymous Gift, 1977
Panel from a six-panel folding screen; ink and color on paper
Painting
Accession Number:1977.448
Chochung-001
Chochungdo
초충도
草蟲圖
Flowers, vegetable, and insects
This painting is part of eight folding screen. The painting depicts egg plant and butterflies along with bees and other insects harmoniously though out the space.
이 작품은 여덟 폭 병풍의 초충도 중 하나이다. 가지와 나비, 벌 및 개미와 여치의 표현에서 섬세한 필선, 선명한 색채, 안정된 구도 등을 보이는 훌륭한 작품이다.
신사임당(申師任堂, 1504-1551)은 이이(李珥)의 어머니로 조선 초기의 대표적인 여류화가이다. 시∙글씨∙그림에 모두 뛰어났고 자수도 잘 하였다. 그림에 있어서는 산수, 포도, 대나무, 매화, 그리고 화초와 벌레 등 다양한 분야의 소재를 즐겨 그렸다. 산수에 있어서는 안견(安堅)을 따랐다고 전해진다. 이러한 초충도는 신사임당의 작품이라고 전해지는 것이 많으며, 후대에 자수본(刺繡本)으로 많이 이용되었다.
Shin Saimdang
전 신사임당(傳 申師任堂)
National Museum of Korea <br /><br />http://www.museum.go.kr/site/main/relic/search/view?relicId=2061
1504-1551
Park Chung-hee
박정희(朴正熙)
Ⓒ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF KOREA
Eight folding screen
Painting
소장품번호신수(新收)-003550-000
Chochung-003
Chochungdo
초충도
Flowers, vegitables and insects
This painting is one of eight folded painting Shin Saimdang painted. Watermelon, rat and butterflies create stable composition in the painting and detaisl of object well-depicted by artist.
이 작품은 여덟 폭 병풍의 초충도 중 하나이다. 수박 및 생쥐와 나비 등의 표현에서 섬세한 필선, 선명한 색채, 안정된 구도 등을 보이는 훌륭한 작품이다. 신사임당(申師任堂, 1504-1551)은 이이(李珥)의 어머니로 조선 초기의 대표적인 여류화가이다. 시∙글씨∙그림에 모두 뛰어났고 자수도 잘 하였다. 그림에 있어서는 산수, 포도, 대나무, 매화, 그리고 화초와 벌레 등 다양한 분야의 소재를 즐겨 그렸다. 산수에 있어서는 안견(安堅)을 따랐다고 전해진다.
이러한 초충도는 신사임당의 작품이라고 전해지는 것이 많으며, 후대에 자수본(刺繡本)으로 많이 이용되었다.
Shin Saimdang
전 신사임당(傳 申師任堂)
National Museum of Korea
http://www.museum.go.kr/site/main/relic/search/view?relicId=2061#
1504-1551
Park Chung-hee
박정희(朴正熙)
Ⓒ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF KOREA
Eight fold screen; Ink and color on paper
Painting
소장품번호신수(新收)-003550-000
Chochung-002
Birds and Flowers
Birds and flowers
Paintings of birds and flowers have a long tradition in East Asian art. In Korea folding screens depicting combinations of birds and flowers became prevalent in the late Joseon period and continued to be popular in the twentieth century.
Carefully composed and meticulously detailed, the scenes in this colorful and exquisitely painted screen are characterized by heightened realism. Each panel portrays one or more pairs of birds resting on or flying around a blossoming plant, a tree, or reeds. The rightmost panel also includes a hen with her chicks under a rock. The symbolism of male-female pairings of birds—mandarin ducks, for example, are known to mate for life—made such screens suitable decoration for wedding ceremonies or a bridal chamber. Beyond domestic bliss, paintings of birds and flowers also embodied wishes for wealth, career advancement, longevity, and fecundity.
Unidentified Korean artist
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Arts <br /><br />http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/44760
Late 19th - early 20th century
Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift and John M. Crawford Jr. Bequest, 1993
Ten-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk
Painting
Accession Number:1993.255
Hwajo-003
Deer amid pine trees
소나무 아래 사슴 조선
松下雙鹿圖 朝鮮
Deer, pine trees and eternal mashrooms
Depicting idyllic landscapes, the two scrolls displayed here celebrate auspicious imagery, especially deer and pine trees. Originally they were probably part of a set featuring the ten symbols of longevity. The blue and green landscape setting also carries a favorable meaning: it evokes an archaic style associated with a golden age in China to which later artistic traditions throughout East Asia often alluded.
The pictorial theme of the ten symbols of longevity was especially fashionable in Korea during the Joseon dynasty, and most extant works date to the nineteenth century. Painted or embroidered folding screens on the subject were initially produced for the royal court to display at palace events. The appealing motifs also filtered into folk paintings.
Unidentified Korean artist
The Metropolitan Museum of Art <br /><br />http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78286
19th century
Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2013
© 2000–2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All rights reserved.
Two hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
Painting
Accession Number:2013.29a, b
Shipjang-001
Tiger and Magpie
Tiger, magpie, and pine tree
A large tiger with striped fur and a long tail curving around the lower half of the picture is seated with its body facing to the right and its head turned to the left. The tiger appears to be looking at two magpies perched in the branches of a pine tree in the top left-hand side of the picture.
Unidentified Korean artist
Victoria and Albert Museum <br /><br />http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O22242
1850-1910
Purchased with the help of Museum colleagues in memory of Lisa Bailey (1964-1996), Curator of Korean Art 1994-1996
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2017. All Rights Reserved
Black ink and colors on paper
Painting
Museum number: FE.68-1997
Hojak-003
Tiger and Magpie
Tiger, magpie and pine tree
A small tiger with striped fur and a long tail curving around the lower portion of the picture is seated with its body facing to the left and its head towards the right. The tiger appears to be looking at two magpies perched in the branches of a pine tree in the top right-hand side of the picture.
Unidentified Korean artist
Victoria and Albert Museum <br /><br />http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O22243/tiger-and-magpie-painting-unknown/
1850-1910
Purchased with the help of Museum colleagues in memory of Lisa Bailey (1964-1996), Curator of Korean Art 1994-1996
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2017. All Rights Reserved
Black ink and colors on paper
Painting
Museum number: FE.69-1997
Hojak-002
Books and Scholars' Possessions
Books and scholars' posessions
Paintings of Scholar's accouterments in Ten-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk by unknown Korean artist. Paintings of Distinctive objects appearing in this screen include (from right to left) three peacock feathers in a vase (panel 3), monochrome ink landscape paintings (panels 2 and 5), gold-painted black porcelain (panels 4, 7, and 10), a game board (panel 6), and a pendulum clock with Roman numerals and letters (panel 10). Two auspicious Chinese characters are repeated on vessels throughout the screen, one for longevity (壽 su in Korean; panels 1, 2, 8, and 9) and one for good fortune (福 bok in Korean; panels 1, 7, 9, and 10).
Unidentified Korean artist
The Metropolitan Museum of Art<br /><br />http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/73134
Early 20th century
Purchase, Shelby White Gift, 2005
© 2000–2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All rights reserved.
Ten-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk
Chinese
Painting
Accession Number: 2005.385
Chaek-001
4 Works: Birds and flowers
Birds and flowers
Paintings of flowers and birds from late 19th-early 20th century by unknown Korean artist.
Unidentified Korean artist
MutualArt Services, Inc. <br /><br />https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/4-Works--Birds-and-flowers--Hwajodo-/9579AD6DCC0DBED6
Late 19th-early 20th century
© 2017 MutualArt Services, Inc.
4 panel paintings; ink and color on paper
painting
9579AD6DCC0DBED6
Hwajo-002
Pictorial Ideographs (Munjado) of the Eight Confucian Virtues
Eight confucian virtues
Mounted on each side of this screen are unrelated paintings: on one side is a set of the eight Confucian virtues, and on the other a Mongolian hunting scene. Pictorial Ideographs (Munjado) of the Eight Confucian Virtues In pictorial ideographs, called Munjado, calligraphic paintings of Chinese characters are integrated with images that relate to the characters’ meaning. Sets featuring the eight Confucian virtues were popular, which demonstrates the importance of Confucian ideas and practices during the late Joseon period. Always appearing in the same order, the eight Confucian virtues are, from right to left, filial piety, brotherly love, loyalty, trust, propriety, righteousness, integrity, and sensibility. Often displayed in a child’s room, the images were didactic and intended to inspire proper values. The pictorial illustrations generally refer to well-known historical stories or legends. Although the characters and their related stories are based on Chinese classics, the aesthetics and design elements are purely Korean. For example, the way in which the a single image is used in the composition as a signifier for a complex story is unique to Korea. In addition, sets featuring all of the eight virtues are distinctly Korean in taste: in China, the individual characters for longevity (shou) and fortune (fu) were consistently the most favored subjects and were usually presented in a hanging scroll format. Although there are many known screens illustrating the eight virtues, LACMA’s example is distinctive because each panel also includes four lines from proverbs related to each virtue. The artist arranged the characters and their visual elements with great harmony, embedding the images with two different techniques: in some characters, the images completely replace a character stroke, while in others, the pictorial elements appear inside an existing stroke.
Unidentified Korean artist
Los Angels County Museum of Art<br /><br />https://collections.lacma.org/node/170471
19th Century
Gift of Ann and Jack Levine
Ten-panel screen, ink and color on silk
Chinese
Painting
M.87.267
Munja-001