Oriental Ink Movement (1983 CE) Flashcards
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Summer Trees
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Broad, vertical, parallel brush strokes that blend and bleed into one another
Sumukhwa (“ink was painting”, a.k.a the Oriental Ink Movement)
Literati painting (the literatus is a scholarly and artistic man in China who was considered ideal because writing and art used the same tools with different results)
Matches Western notions of abstraction
Represents the tension between Korean artists who used oil paints (inspired by the West) and those who stuck to traditional materials
Expresses the Korean identity
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Summer Trees IDs
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Song Su-nam
1983 CE
Oriental ink movement
Ink on paper
