Title of art	보올티모어 포우의 묘지/Poe's Tomb in Baltimore			Sector	Korean painting (한국화)
Art specifications	27?24cm			Material technique	Color on paper
Collection year	1998			Production year	1983
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. In the 1980s, Chun sought out the worlds of literature and film. Chun had fostered an appreciation for literature and film since her student days, and over the years, film, theater, pop music, and dance became more than just a hobby for the artist; they had become the sources of her artistic inspiration, the means for consoling her lonesome life, and materials for her work. Chun’s quest for internationally renowned literary masters’ footsteps resulted in her visual and written works, wherein her passion and affection for culture and the arts can be found. Chun's endless pursuit of the primal nature of mankind combined with her deep appreciation for the art and culture of European and American civilizations have led to detailed and realistic styles that also present certain changes in composition and colors, thereby capturing a world of dreams, love, and fantasy on the canvas. (1983) is a painting of Westminster Hall and Burying Ground in Baltimore, where Edgar Allan Poe was interred. In her literary travels, Chun has presented different choices in her subjects and composition than usual. In these works, Chun mostly painted buildings such as the writers’ homes or graves, and instead of focusing on only certain aspects of the subject while introducing variation in the coloration or composition, she depicted the subjects in realistic detail. The small canvas almost looks like a snapshot photograph. The building reaches up and beyond the painting, revealing the sky in its gaps to accentuate the chapel’s height and sense of elevation. Instead of rendering her visual impressions of the scenery, Chun focused on replicating the details of the subject.
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