art analysis

ARTS 1A

Topic 4 Reading

Click on the following link to read the essay, “Work and Leisure: Eighteenth-Century Genre Painting in Korea” by Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun, published on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website:

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/kgnr/hd_kgnr.htm

After reading the essay, address the following questions in your notebook:

1. When did French writers begin to call “illustrations of everyday life” genre painting? (See paragraph 1.)

2. Name the artist about which Gang Sehwang wrote the following: ”all the activities of people’s daily lives, street scenes, ferry crossings, stores, scenes of civil examinations . . . those who witnessed his work could not fail to cry out and clap in wonder at each brushstroke.” (See paragraph 2.)

3. According to the author, what was a “turning point in the Korean people’s perception of their own culture and that of their neighboring countries”? (See paragraph 5.)

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