Artworks

Complete View of the Diamond Mountains

Artwork · Jeong Seon · 1734 · kakemono · Ho-Am Art Museum

Jeong Seon (1676–1759), who spread the Southern School style in Korea and developed “true-view” landscapes of actual places (chin’gyŏng sansu): the Diamond Mountains, a needle-forest of white peaks around a darker earthen core. In the nineteenth century the poet and calligrapher Kim Jeong-hui (Ch’usa) and his followers carried on the Southern School style. 1 Portal 2000, p. 131, fig. 68. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.