Title of art	뵈로나에서/In Verona			Sector	Korean painting (한국화)
Art specifications	31?23cm			Material technique	Ink and water color on paper
Collection year	1998			Production year	1970
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. From 1964 to 1974, Chun created quick pen or pencil sketches during her travels abroad, later lightly painting them over with watercolor. Such style can be seen in her travel paintings created in the South Pacific and Europe in 1969, demonstrating Chun's expert sketching skills. Since her trips to Africa in 1974, Chun reflected the primitive aesthetics in her sketched lines colored with gouache. Her travel paintings transformed to feature more vibrant, primary 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. (1970) is a sketch of the so-called Juliet’s House in Verona, referring to the tragic heroine of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Chun adeptly and swiftly sketched each ornament, pattern, balcony, window sills, and surrounding environment of the building. Chun visited major destinations across Italy to sketch them, mainly medieval architecture. The difference in her architecture sketches is that Chun sketched the buildings as they are in realistic detail without manipulating their composition. Given the limited access to overseas travel for South Koreans at the time, this sketch very likely evoked wanderlust for Chun’s fellow Koreans back home.
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