[KS] help needed with image

[Hilary V. Finchum-Sung]

Thank you for your generous assistance!

Hilary


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From : "Frank Hoffmann"
To : koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
Date : 2011/07/11 월요일 오후 6:50:31
Subject : Re: [KS] help needed with image


Re: [KS] help needed with image

    
        
            
            Hello Hilary:
            

            Yes, Sin Yun-bok and "Miin-do" are good keywords. The most famous one by Sin Yun-bok is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hyewon-Miindo.jpg  The one you find in every tourist booklet, on umbrellas, as ball pen designs, etc.
            The term "miin-do" seems to be a generic term, not an actual title. You also find miin-do paintings in China and Japan, also in later periods (e.g. during the Taish? period in Japan). That is a genre that traveled and changed throughout the centuries, was kind of "back-introduced" in a modern version to Korea in the 1920s.
            

            The one you have there, the one the stage image is based on, looks to me like a 19th century work based on Sin Yun-bok. Especially the way the face is done would to me indicate that it is later than Sin Yun-bok's period. The Japanese National Museum in Tokyo in whose collection it is gives the painter as "anonymous."
            

            Painter:  anonymous
            114.2 cm x 56.5 cm, colors on paper
            Collection: Tokyo National Museum (in Ueno Park)
            http://www.tnm.jp/?lang=en
            

            

            Best,
            Frank
            

              
            

            

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