RT Article
T1 Visual Nationalism and Communal Rituals: Park Saengkwang’s Art and Korean Shamanism
JF Cultural and religious studies
VO 10
IS 12
SP 663
OP 681
A1 Shin, Seojeong
LA English
PB David Publishing Company
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1842710753
AB This paper analyzes Park Saengkwang (1904-1985)’s artwork, created in the 1980s and influenced by Musok, Korean Shamanism. It explores Musok’s thematic significance in the development of his distinctive style and the inspiration behind his stylistic changes. Park’s ink paintings are done in bold and intense colors and create an intriguing, mysterious mood, inviting the viewers to the primordial visual experience and exposing its viewers to Korean Shamanism, which has endured the perception that fluctuated between positive and negative throughout      Korean history. The practice became a fitting cultural emblem associated with the national identity during the   1970s and 1980s, and thus became a way for Park to explicitly articulate his cultural roots, creating a visual connotation of "Korean." His art, portraying gut, Korean shamanistic communal rituals, could be conceived as a pictorial rendering of the idea of kibok, praying for good fortune, and served as a pujŏk, talisman paper, that  possesses magical healing and protecting power. By striving to overcome the stylistic conflicts between Korean   and Japanese, or traditional and Western, Park’s art accomplished the visual rhetoric of national aesthetic    sensitivity that built on the communal thoughts and cultural experience of shamanism in the modern history of  Korea.
K1 Korean Shamanism
K1 Korean art and shamanism
K1 Korean colored ink painting
K1 Park Saengkwang
K1 Twentieth Century Korean Art
K1 communal thoughts and rituals
K1 Identity
K1 visual nationalism
DO 10.17265/2328-2177/2022.12.001