Participating Artists      

For HwaWon or Flower Garden, include: Eunho Kim, Yongjin Kim, Inseung Kim, Hyungkeun Kim, Sangbong Do, Raehyun Park, Chikyoon Oh, Bangja Lee, Eungno  Lee, Woosung Jang, Ryun Heo, Bakryun Heo,

For PungKyung or Landscape, include: Kichang Kim, Byunghoon Kim, Won Kim, Soohyung No, Byungchun Park, Gwansik Byun, Eungseong Son, Jungsik Ahn, Taehak Oh, Daewon Lee, Sangbum Lee, Jongsang Lee, Cheolju Lee, Piloen Lee, Yikyu Jang, Soolwon Jung, Seongchae Ji, Soahn Hong

As celebrating the 10^th anniversary of Coreana Museum of Art, the exhibition from the permanent collection Flower Garden⦁Landscape introduces fifty works of Korean artist so as to illustrate various perspectives are made in them when encountering scenery of the nature like flowers and grass, mountain and sea. Contrary to the unworldly, contemplative landscape, those by Sangbum Lee, Gwansik Byun, Soohyun Noh in the early 20^th century illustrate what is observed by eyes in real, en plain air, while paintings by Kichang Kim, Jongsang Lee extend the traditional monochrome landscape painting to the colored ones and those artists like Daewon Lee, Chikyun Oh, Byungchoon Park defines the Korean modern landscape; these works of arts are not descriptive but reflective of the artist’s perception on the nature.

In particular, the flower paintings by Ryun Heo, Bakryun Heo, Eungno Lee are exhibited together with porcelains from the Koryo Dynasty(918~1392) and the Chosun Dynasty(1392~1910) decorated with the same motifs, unfolding the traditional iconographic system of spirit and fidelity, grace and loyalty, offspring’s prosperity and wealth-and-honor in relation to flowers and trees. As the works exhibited implies, the attitude of Korean artists to look into the nature so as to comprehend the meaning of life would suggest a new possibility of representation in landscape paintings.

Hosted by          Coreana Museum of Art

Supported by    Coreana Cosmetics, Co., Ltd.