Mt. Halla

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With his powerful and meticulous brushstrokes, Park Dae Sung filled this landscape with steep hills and plunging cascades. As noted in the left corner, the artist portrayed Cheonjaeyeon Waterfalls in Mt. Halla, one of the most splendid natural beauties of Jeju Island, Korea. Waterfalls have long been a cherished theme among literati artists in East Asia. For these scholar-official artists who cultivated their minds through poetry, calligraphy, and painting, contemplating a waterfall was considered a leisure activity to hone one’s spiritual virtue. In this painting, Park draws on the literati tradition, reflecting his own experience of the gushing waterfall and its roaring sound. At the bottom, Park included a heron who symbolizes the artist himself, suggesting his endeavor to integrate his mind with the natural world.

From the 2024 exhibition Attitude of Coexistence: Non-Humans in East Asian Art, curated by Haely Chang, Jane and Raphael Bernstein Associate Curator of East Asian Art

Course History

Theater 10.34, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 66.25, Disability Arts & Activism, Julia Havard, Spring 2023

Studio Art 20.01, Studio Art 71.01, Drawing II, III, Daniele Genadry, Summer 2024

Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums...?, Mary Coffey, Spring 2026

Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 51.11, Religion 2.02, Religions of Vietnam, Sara Swenson, Winter 2025

Geography 3.01, Living with Nature, Coleen Fox, Winter 2025

Philosophy 50.18, Animal Minds, Tina Rosenqvist, Winter 2025

Religion 40.08, Fear & Loathing in Religion, MK Long, Winter 2025

Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums…?, Mary Coffey, Spring 2025

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2025

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Marco D'Angelo, Spring 2025

Religion 1.13, Sacred Movement, Robert Weiner, Spring 2025

Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 70.24, Asian American Art and Architecture, Sujin Eom, Spring 2025

College Course 26.01, What’s in Your Toolbox?, Casey Aldrich and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2025

Comparative Literature 55.03, Asian Societies, Culture, and Language 60.10, Eco-Fiction: Stories of Ghosts and Other Beings from Premodern China, Yiren Zheng, Fall 2025

Special Tour: Attitude of Coexistence and Beyond the Bouquet, Winter 2025

Exhibition Tour: Attitudes of Coexistence and Beyond the Bouquet, Winter 2025

Exhibition History

Attitude of Coexistence: Non-humans in East Asian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 16, 2024-February 24, 2025.

Provenance

Gana Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea; given to present collection, 2023.

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