VOLUME4- Folk Painting

The author organizes this books 100 illustrations into categories by subject, including flowers and birds, Buddhist-inspored lotuses, insects and flower, the 10 Long-life symbols, scholars bookshelves, dragons, mountains and rivers.

While reflecting Chinese influences and themes prominet in earlier literatipaintings, Korean folk paintings represent distinctly Korean techniques, composition, subject matter, and style.

Viewed at the time as inferior to the traditional mainstream of classical Chinese scholar-painting, Korean folk painting was the work of humble artist who declined, indeed, were probably unable to inscribe the date or their names on their masterpieces.

The Folk Painting installment of the Korean Art Book series presents an in-depth survey of a unique genre of Korean painting that flourished during the 18th to the early 20th centuries.

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VOLUME4- Folk Painting