Artworks

Bamboo

Artwork · Yi Chŏng · 1567–1624 · kakemono

Bamboo by Yi Chŏng (1541–1624), the most famous bamboo painter of the calligraphic style: bamboo, associated with integrity and austerity, was the first subject tested for court painters. 1 Portal 2000, pp. 127–128, fig. 65. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.