Mt. Halla

Park Dae Sung, Korean, born 1945

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2022

Ink on paper

Sheet: 49 3/8 × 39 3/8 in. (125.4 × 100 cm)

Overall: 52 1/2 × 42 3/4 × 2 3/4 in. (133.4 × 108.6 × 7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Gana Foundation for Arts and Culture

© Park Dae Sung

2023.14.2

Geography

Place Made: South Korea, Asia

Period

21st century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Label

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

Provenance

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

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