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National Museum of Korea

Discover Some Treasures

To travel in Gangsan Mujindo (Endless Mountains and Rivers) by Yi In-mun

Teacher: Hi everyone. Today we're going to take a look at a very special painting.

Let's think about the history and traditional art that we learned about  in social and art classes at school. Do you remember how to appreciate traditional art?

Children: Yes, I do!

Teacher: Then let's think about the facts that we've learned and then look at and feel the painting together.

Children: Yeah, sounds good!

Jae-hyun: Teacher, this painting is much longer than I thought.

Teacher: It is quite a large and long painting, isn’t it? This is a scroll painting called ‘’hoeng-gwon (horizontal scroll)’’, and it is 856cm in length. It is somewhat longer than the distance from the blackboard at the front of our classroom to the back of the classroom. Along with 'Mongyu Dowondo (Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land)' by An Gyeon and 'Chokjando (Cliff Road to Chok)' by Sim Sa-jeong, this painting Gangsan Mujindo (Endless Mountains and Rivers)' by Yi In-mun, is considered to be one of Korea's top three most important scrolls.

Yoon-sun: Wow! Teacher, I would like to know more about this artist who created such an amazing piece.

Teacher: Yi In-mun was a painter active in the late Joseon Dynasty. Do you know which king was famous for building the Suwon Hwaseong Fortress?

Yoon-sun: It was King Jeongjo!

Teacher: That's right. Yi In-mun was born in 1745 when King Yeongjo ruled the country and was active during King Jeongjo's reign.

(Picture:Landscape by Yi In-mun)

He was also a court painter, a civil servant painter of the country.

(Picture: Album Containing Paintings by Sim Sa-jeong)

He was the disciple of Sim Sa-jeong, who was introduced earlier, and Gim Hong-do, who is famous for genre paintings, and was his colleague.

Jae-hyun: He was  close to Kim Hong-do?

(Picture: @Kim Hong-do #Plowing a Rice Field #Treasure 527 #Album of Genre Paintings by Kim Hong-do)

(Picture: @Kim Hong-do #Korean Traditional Wrestling #Treasure 527 #Album of Genre Paintings by Kim Hong-do)

(Picture: @Sim Sa-jeong #A Hermit with a Toad #Sim Sa-jeong, Jeong Seon, Album Containing Paintings)

Teacher: Yeah, that's right. They were both the same age, working together as court painters. Since they enjoyed each other's paintings and helped each other, they must have been pretty close, right?

Jae-hyun: Oh, I see. By the way, where does this long painting start?

Teacher: Jae-hyun, when you write, which direction do you start from?

Jae-hyun: I start from the left, write to the right, and when I finish writing to the end of the line, I go down to the next line.

Yoon-sun: However, in the Joseon Dynasty, people started writing from the top right, went down, and when the line was filled, they moved to the left.

Teacher: That's right. Considering the way people wrote  in the past, if we also appreciate paintings from right to left, we can know what people thought or felt at the time. Shall we give it a try?

Teacher: There's a hill and two people passing by, right? If we follow their footsteps, it could be a nice way to appreciate the paintings.

(Why don't we go see the fall foliage? #Kangshan_Mujindo #Autumn_Trip #Leaf_peeping)

Jae-hyun: The mountain is getting rugged?, and the waterfall flows through it.

Teacher: Can you hear the sound of a rushing stream?

Jae-hyun: There's no sound in the painting, Teacher!

Teacher: Let's try and focus. Korean traditional art isn't just about looking, is it? Open your ears and mind. I can hear the various sounds of autumn in the painting.

(Listen to the sounds of nature as if you were in the mountain of the painting.)

Yoon-sun: If I imagine I'm in the painting, I think I can hear the sounds.

Teacher: You observed it very well. I heard Yi In-mun drew pine trees very well. He must have loved them so much that he included the character for pine trees in his pen name. Take a look around the pine trees and the entire surrounding landscape.There is a variety of expression through the gentle rivers, small villages and rugged mountains. Yi In-mun was a painter who excelled in brush techniques and used various brush techniques to suit the characteristics of the object.

Yoon-sun: Teacher, I can see so many people slowly traveling along the road.

Teacher: That’s right, there’re about 350 people. Everyone is living such a hard life, manning boats or carts or selling things in the market.

So this painting is about people from the Joseon Dynasty? Oh, right. I learned about the artists who depicted  the Joseon Dynasty at school. Who were they?

Jae-hyun: I remember that.

(Picture: General View of Mt. Geumgangsan by Jeong Seon)

(Picture: Roof Tiling by Kim Hong-do)

There is Jeong Seon who drew Mt. Geumgang and Gim Hong-do, Yi In-moon's friend who depicted people's lives!

Teacher: Oh, exactly. You remembered well. Like this, the traditional art of the late Joseon Dynasty expressed the real life of the times. The marketplaces and merchants in the paintings also represent the society of the time when commerce was developing.

Yoon-sun: Seeing people living peacefully in nature and in the villages, I just hope my neighborhood is also always this peaceful.

Jae-hyun: Me too!

Teacher: Wow, that's amazing! Yoon-sun and Jae-hyun, you really thought about the theme of the painting in connection with our lives. Well, our art appreciation trip is coming to an end. I was so happy to get to see and appreciate Treasure No. 2029 'Gangsan Mujindo (Endless Mountains and Rivers)' by Yi In-mun and the other treasures with my class.

So, did we all enjoy the artwork in the museum gallery?

Children: Yes, I loved it!

Jae-hyun: I don't want to leave the museum.

Travelers of Jeongdeok Elementary School on a Journey into <Gangsan Mujindo>

Teacher, Lee Ji-young

Student, Nam Yoon-sun

Student, Lee Jae-hyun

Yoon Sun and Jae Hyun's <The Subject Unit Watching with Painting>

Second Semester of 5th grade <Society> - Movement towards a New Society

5th to 6th grade <Art> - Appreciation

Middle School <History> - Changes in Joseon Society

Middle School <Art> - Appreciation