This unique silk wall scroll shows a perfect reproduction of the Minhwa people painting from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). This particular work shows a fictional scene from ten creations of eternity. The ten creations of eternity in the Taoist philosophy and spring of the youth: sun, mountain, water, stone, cloud, pine, deer, bulnocho (herb of the eternal young), turtle and crane. The peach and the bamboo are depicted in this painting, since they also symbolize the Taoist paradise and eternity.
Minhwa has its origins in wall painting, in the Graebern, the old Koguryo Empire (57 BC - AD 668). Minhwa is an art of household design.In contrast to monochrome paintings painted by the scholars Confucius and the court painters, who worship refined Fomalism, who ignored the rules of perspective and the composition of the people's paintings, combined with freshness and emotion a beautiful abstract atmosphere. For the people, the pictures had a more functional purpose to celebrate happiness, health and a long life. The folk painters had their principles in shamanism, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism combined in landscape and nature paintings and portraits of religious figures.
The most notable features of Korean folk painting are its dynamic compositions, the use of colors and simplified patterns, the vigorous visualizations of its form with no great concern for reality.Because of this unique property of Minhwa, it is sought after all over the world.
Dimensions:
32 x 73 cm
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