Smithy, painted by Kim Hong Do, vividly shows the smithery working figures with skillful strokes.

   Characters of the painting truthfully demonstrate the modest and diligent lifestyle and sentiments of our people who enjoy working.

   In the painting the man, who seems to be the eldest, concentrates his mind on holding a pair of tongs to adjust a piece of iron with his mouth distorted.

   A bushy-whiskered man has just hit a lump of metal on an anvil with all his strength and the other man is twirling a hammer balancing himself on his right leg.

   In keeping with the strong hammering, a young man wearing a cowl is blowing the bellows enthusiastically and another youngster, who seems to have just returned from the fields and took off his carrier, is whetting his sickle.

   The picture is so vivid that the whole workplace is active with labour and enables the viewer to feel even the vigorous working rhythm.

   Perfect composition of the characters, master and vivid strokes, and the depiction of characters by elastic lines without any hesitation show his painting skill clearly.