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The gayageum or kayagum (Korean: 가야금; Hanja: 伽倻琴) is a traditional Korean musical instrument. It is a plucked zither with 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 18, 21 or 25 strings. It is probably the best known traditional Korean musical instrument. [1]
Onib Olmedo (July 7, 1937 – September 8, 1996) was a Filipino painter acclaimed by critics as one of the major Filipino artists of the 20th century. Olmedo created a body of works that utilizes the expressionist technique of distortion to portray the inner torment experienced by modern man.
Korean painting (Korean: 한국화) includes paintings made in Korea or by overseas Koreans on all surfaces. The earliest surviving Korean paintings are murals in the Goguryeo tombs , of which considerable numbers survive, the oldest from some 2,000 years ago (mostly now in North Korea ), with varied scenes including dancers, hunting and ...
Other Korean artists combining modern Western and Korean painting traditions are i.e. Junggeun Oh and Tschoon Su Kim. While there have been only rare studies on Korean aesthetics, a useful place to begin for understanding how Korean art developed an aesthetic is in Korean philosophy, and related articles on Korean Buddhism, and Korean Confucianism.
Kang's practice traverses painting, sculpture, performance, video and installation. Inspired by cultural traditions of Korea as well as contemporary artistic and literary discourses. Kang decodes rules and values that govern these disciplines, turning to artistic languages of the past to construct a contextual lens through which she explores ...
Notable 19th-century oil paintings include Basi Revolt paintings, Sacred Art of the Parish Church of Santiago Apostol (1852), Spoliarium (1884), La Bulaqueña (1895), and The Parisian Life (1892). [230] A notable modern painting s The Progress of Medicine in the Philippines (1953). [230] After World War II, paintings were influenced by the ...
Rafael Arenillo Cusi, also known by his nickname Popoy Cusi, is a Filipino artist who specializes in watercolour.He is also dubbed as the "Master of Watercolour in the Philippines" and is acclaimed as one of the top artist of the Philippines in his times including other artists who also specializes in watercolor.
Wanting to become a missionary to Africa, he began studies in 2011 at the International Evangelical College in the Philippines in Pastoral Studies, but left school in 2013 to pursue painting in Perth, Australia. [8] He draws much of his inspiration from hip hop culture. [6]