Minhwa
民画 / 17th–19th century / Style / Popular Painting
The folk painting of unnamed artists in late Joseon Korea: tigers and magpies, pictorial ideographs, scholar's-shelf still lifes — set formulas drawn with free multi-perspective composition and humor that laughs at authority.
The tiger-and-magpie formula / Free multiple perspective / Humorous exaggeration / Auspicious motifs
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the tiger-and-magpie lineage / chaekgado shelf paintings / contemporary reinterpretations of minhwa