Kpop threads galore, but little love for the higher-brow stuff... let's change that. > Minhwa, literally means "painting of the people" or "popular painting", were produced and popularized by anonymous painters of the lower class during the late Joseon dynasty of 1390s to 1890s. Folk paintings portray animals, beautiful flowers, trees, birds and even shelves with books, painting essentials or other daily objects in the live of ordinary Koreans. Though these masterpieces may differ in figures, colors and topics, they are all drawn to a specific plain, straightforward and naive style. Some even look quite childish and unrefined. However, the actual work is much more complicated than that. Minhwa is usually produced to decorate the main door of a house or can be done on folded screens and other furniture to bring happiness, luck, prosperity, wealth, fame, offspring, and even to ward off evil spirits. It usually takes a huge amount of effort, concentration and great skill to finish a Minhwa painting. Though they are roughly drawn, they express the philosophy of art of the Koreans: bold strokes, vivid colors, and unconventional layouts, combined with wit, humor, and an optimistic spirit.
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cool thread>>4838059koreans painted some trippy looking tigers
>>4838962>koreans painted some trippy looking tigersSince Siberian tigers are native to the peninsula, they're very important to Korean folklore. In fact, they have a whole subgenre of minhwa> Kkachi horangi (까치호랑이) is a prominent genre of minhwa that depicts magpies and tigers. In kkachi horangi paintings, the tiger, which is intentionally given a ridiculous and stupid appearance (hence its nickname "idiot tiger" 바보호랑이), represents authority and the aristocratic yangban, while the dignified magpie represents the common man. Hence, kkachi horangi paintings of magpies and tigers were a satire of the hierarchical structure of Joseon's feudal society.
>>4838052> Irworobongdo (Korean: 일월오봉도; Hanja: 日月五峯圖) is a [type of] Korean folding screen with a highly stylized landscape painting of a sun and moon, five peaks which always was set behind Eojwa, the king’s royal throne during the Joseon Dynasty. It literally means "Painting of the Sun, Moon and the Five Peaks" and is also called "Irwoldo" ("Painting of the Sun and Moon") or "Irwolgonryundo" ("Painting of the Sun, Moon and Mount Kunlun"). The sun and moon symbolize the king and queen while the five peaks denotes a mythical place. The screen serves to display the majesty of the Joseon royal court.
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>>4838052I like this thread!
This is not Minwha but Tangwha by 24-year-old uni student.
>>4848035Wonderfully done! And by all means, any Korean folk art works here> 용왕탱화> Dragon and dragon flower?
>>4838052fantastic thread and subjectcheers to you
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Lunch time and Wrestling by Kim Hong-do from late Joseon period.
Scenery from Dano day (단오풍정) by Sin Yun-bok aka Hyewon from late Joseon period.
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감사합니다~
>>4856678괜찮아~ :)
>>4854741Is there a cultural reason why Korean tigers look crazy, in the way that the artists’ priority doesn’t seem to have been accurately representing them?
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>>4862595love this one
iz dat mean hwa, a folk drawing?
>>4862953Same. I didn't even know that Koreans knew what dreamcatchers are>>4863271> Suffix> Sino-Korean word from 畫.> 화 • (-hwa) (hanja 畫/畵)> genre or style of painting> 서양화 (西洋畫) ― seoyanghwa (西洋 畫 ) ― Western painting> 수채화 (水彩畫) ― suchaehwa (水彩 畫 ) ― watercolour (lit. watercolour painting)> 풍경화 (風景畫) ― punggyeonghwa (風景 畫 ) ― landscape paintinghttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%ED%99%94
>>4858498Who's that Pokemon?!
힘내세요~*범프*
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>>4838432>>4841461I started saving most of the thread, I just noticed these 2 are gifs for some reason
>>4879083That's on me, I should've known to change the file format. My badYou can always change it on your end:https://ezgif.com/jpg-to-gif> I started saving most of the threadWhat do you like about these minhwa? I'd like to get some feedback if possible... I know Japanese stuff is more refined and what not, but there's an almost affected subtlety that I like about the Korean stuff. I fell in love with the style last year after I went to Insa-dong, Seoul's artsy district and the historic center for the antique trade. The place can be a bit touristy, but Korean tourist stuff is higher-quality and mostly domestically-made, not like in the US. The neighborhood has one or two main streets, but there's a bunch of side alleys where the smaller dealers are, many being there for decades, both the old art there (much of it obviously from the 19th century) and the new stuff absolutely amazed me. I wandered into a place barely larger than a living room run by an old guy in a suit, he sold handmade art. I used basic words and gestures to show how happy I was to see such well-made art, and he seemed genuinely happy I enjoyed the higher culture of his country so much. He gestured me to come closer and asked if I wanted to see something nice, and he laughed when I clarified I wasn't buying so he wouldn't waste his time. He then pulled a gorgeous hand painted picture of a tiger out of a thin drawer and unrolled it (pic related). The picture doesn't do justice to the brush strokes and the contrast of the colors popping against the translucent parchment, it almost looked like a living thing with glowing eyes. I think I saw something of the Korean people's soul in that picture, stupid as it sounds (it's their national animal by tradition)... if I ever go to Korea again, I am buying some minhwa from Insa-dong.
>>4879153>What do you like about these minhwa?You can clearly see passion for art in them, I feel it's not something easy to replicate, even if some look simple. That's a cool story btw! Instead of seeing an idol, I would probably want something like your experience a lot more lol
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This thread delivers!
>>4918566yes it does lol
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Post more funny tigers
>>4936069Gotcha
귀여운 호랑이 ^_^ ~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym1IiS8lILo
>>4955817why are baby tigers so damned cute?
>>4908125love how huge this one is, so much going on
>>4969129There's an entire genre of minhwa for these kind of paintings called 기록화 (girokhwa, literally "record painting") which depicts official functions and palace layouts
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Thanks to the anon who's been posting the pictures the last few days
