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National Palace Museum of Korea (국립고궁박물관)
Museum Istana Nasional Korea dibuka pada tahun 1992 yang menampilkan peninggalan dari Dinasti Joseon [1392 ~ 1910]. Lebih dari 20.000 peninggalan kerajaan dari Istana Gyeongbokgung, Istana Changdeokgung, Istana Changgyeonggung dan Kuil Jongmyo dipajang.
1. Simbol dan Catatan Kerajaan
Dinasti Joseon mencapai cita-cita Konfusianisme, dan karena itu, raja dan ratunya disembah sebagai orang tua dari semua warga negara. Untuk meningkatkan otoritas mereka, keluarga kerajaan Joseon membuat berbagai simbol kerajaan.
2. Ritual Leluhur
Ritual leluhur kerajaan diadakan di sebuah kuil kerajaan yang mencakup tablet leluhur raja-raja dan ratu-ratu dari Dinasti Joseon. Ini bukan hanya upacara pemujaan leluhur kerajaan, tetapi juga sebuah festival dengan musik dan tarian, dengan harapan untuk kemakmuran abadi bangsa.
3. Arsitektur Istana
Istana adalah tempat tinggal raja dan keluarganya serta pusat administrasi di mana raja memerintah bangsa. Pusat istana di Dinasti Joseon, menurut perencanaan arsitektur tradisional Oriental, ditampilkan di Jeongjeon. Aula utama adalah pusat acara negara dan diskusi politik, dan Pyeonjeon, kantor pemerintah.
4. Joseon Sciences
Dinasti Joseon berusaha untuk membangun legitimasi yayasannya untuk memperkaya perekonomian negara. Untuk mencapai cita-cita ini, dinasti belum pernah terjadi sebelumnya mempromosikan bidang-bidang seperti sains dan kedokteran sambil mengembangkan berbagai senjata untuk pertahanan nasional.
5. Kehidupan Kerajaan
Raja dan ratu adalah figur simbol dari Dinasti Joseon, tetapi mereka juga orang-orang biasa yang menjalani kehidupan pribadi di dalam istana. Istana itu dibagi menjadi beberapa bagian ruang hidup seperti kantor raja, tempat tinggal ratu, dan ruang belajar sang pangeran. Setiap bagian berisi furnitur yang sesuai, yang terbuat dari bahan berkualitas terbaik sesuai dengan kriteria yang telah ditetapkan untuk keluarga kerajaan.
Contemporary Korean Artist Series: Kim Bongtae
Contemporary Korean Artist Series: Kim Bongtae
May.25,2016 - Jul.10,2016
MMCA Gwacheon Gallery 2, Main Hall
The Korean Contemporary Artist Series intends to establish Korean art history by observing artworks of major senior artists. This particular exhibition is a retrospective of Kim Bongtae (b. 1937) and the fourth instalment of the series in the area of painting. Primary colors and geometric forms are inherently distinctive features of Kim Bongtae's works.
Kim Bongtae participated in the Paris Biennale of 1963, and in the same year, he was invited to the Symposium in New York that was organised by the International Plastic Art Association. It was then that he started studying in L.A and finished his master course there. From 1963 to 1985, the artist developed a variety of works whilst engaging in many different activities. He was active as a public figure, taking the positions of the chairman of the Korean Artists’ Association of Southern California and the Dean of the art department of South Baylor University. He also participated in many contest exhibitions and his works were widely presented. After shuttling back and forth from Korea as a visiting scholar, he finally settled down in Korea as a professor in 1986.
Aside from his early abstract expressionistic works, this exhibition features a range of his series titled Shadow, Nonorientable, Window, Dancing Box and Accumulation, which demonstrate the development of his geometric compositions. The geometric forms and three-dimensionality in his painting change into the color-plane of a shaped canvas, and to works that use light-penetrating material. This kind of material becomes an expansion of a sense of space in which one can observe its entire process. His artistic pursuit focuses on colors, forms and lines interplaying with two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality, which Kim Bongtae understands as the essence of plastic art. Kim Bongtae's oeuvre of works shows that he is the one artist to relentlessly make works through which his continuous artistic achievements and sincere artistic spirit can be recognized. Additionally, numerous drawings that have never been shown to the public before are exhibited to display the reality of his working process.
Kim Bongtae's works remain unique in the Korean art world. We can see that his works reflect his intense artistic consciousness of his own struggles as an artist who holds onto his own artistic language for his ultimate freedom, not jumping on the predominant artistic current. Through paintings that are like sculptures, sculptures that are like paintings, and works that play variation on the flat surface and the third dimension, we are able to look into rich strata of Korean art and appreciate the essence of plastic art.
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