Specific Features of Korean Painting During the Colonial Period (1910-1945) in the Art of Kim Eunho and Chang Woosoung
Abstract
This article examines the development of Korean painting during the period of Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945. During this time, Korean art was marked by a strong aspiration to preserve national identity, which found expression in the emergence of the hyangt’osaek movement (“local color” or “national color”), based on the recognizable representation of the country’s ethnographic characteristics. In the works of Kim Eunho (1892–1979) and Chang Woosoung (1912–2005), one can trace both the desire to maintain national identity and the adaptation of traditional painting practices to new cultural conditions through integration of European pictorial techniques and methods. Special attention is given to hyangt’osaek as a form of artistic expression of national identity, as well as an example of the organic synthesis of Korean tradition with modernist tendencies. The analysis of the works of Kim Eunho and Chang Woosoung highlights the role of the aesthetics of “local color” as one of the key stages in the formation of the school of painting in 20th-century Korea.
Keywords
Hyangt'osaek; "Local color"; the Korean colonial period (1910-1945); Korean art of the 20th century; Korean art of the colonial period; Lee In-sung (1912-1950); Kim Eunho (1892-1979); Chang Woosoung (1912-2005);
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