Title of art	뉴델리/New Delhi			Sector	Korean painting (한국화)
Art specifications	24?33cm			Material technique	Color on papaer
Collection year	1998			Production year	1979
Gallery	Seoul Museum of Art			Artist	Chun Kyung-ja
Description of art	Chun Kyung-ja established a unique style of the traditional chaesaekhwa [oriental color painting]. While chaesaekhwa comprises the majority of her best-known paintings, Chun also created many travel paintings, ink and color wash paintings, illustrations, and drawings. Chun embarked on a series of trips overseas for about 30 years since 1969. Chun’s travel paintings are her unique genre of works based on the artist’s sketches capturing the moments and experiences she witnessed during her trips. Chun completed her travel paintings through meticulous and robust coloration work upon her return home from India and Latin America in 1979.. Chun stripped the images deeply ingrained from her destinations and recomposed them in her works, thereby adding further depth and clarity to the colors. Whereas her early travels produced more in situ sketches drawn on site, Chun’s works from her travels eventually became more complete paintings in vibrant colors and fantastical compositions with each trip. Through such process, Chun’s travel paintings evolved from mere records of the artist’s trips, to paintings filled with unique and mystical wonder, establishing it as an independent genre of chaesaekhwa. (1979) is a painting of a zoo in New Delhi, India. The zoo is the first place Chun visited to make her sketches in New Delhi. Chun felt refreshed, looking at the spectacular birds, the white tiger, and the panting leopard, huffing and puffing. Such sense of relief and comfort came from her childhood days growing up in the countryside, where she became fascinated with drawing animals and insects. This painting portrays the animals that the artist observed. The background is colored in purple, giving the work a fantastic, fairy tale-like aura. While each of the subjects are based on the actual sketches, the colors and composition are expressed through the visual sensibilities of the artist alone. This work demonstrates Chun’s unique style that can transform an exotic landscape through dramatic imagination.
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