Jong Son, a representative artist of Korean painting and his paintings
Jong Son is one of the realistic landscape painters representing the end of 17th century and 18th century.
He was very good at painting and also at the painting theory as well. He taught several excellent artists like Sim Sa Jong.
Jong Son vividly depicted the nature of our country with his unique painting style and made a great contribution in the development of the landscape painting of the 18th century.
The beautiful nature of the motherland changing with seasons is well depicted in his landscape paintings. He painted the famous scenic spots of the country and also the ordinary mountains and lakes. The name of the place was always written on his paintings.
In his large and small paintings like Waves on Ongchon, Mt. Inwang, Kuryong Waterfall and Broad Flat Rock, the love for the nature of the motherland is reflected through various pictorial languages.
Kuryong Waterfall proves definitely his painting style characterized by strong and skillful strokes and wide space composition. The pouring waterfall in the center of the picture and safely positioned pine trees extended horizontally opposite to the vertical movement of the waterfall show the excellent descriptive skill of the painter.
Broad Flat Rock is the representative painting formed mainly by the horizontal line. The feelings of two people enjoying the nature at the edge of the stream in summer are reflected by the light strokes in the picture.
Even in figure paintings like Old Man Playing a Kayagum and Spring Rain, he painted the human life in close combination with the beauty of the nature, so that he expressed deep emotion and enhanced the artistic value of the painting.
Jong Son was a patriotic painter who highly praised the beauty of motherland’s nature through his paintings and was an excellent painter who enriched the realistic expression of the Korean paintings with his formative artistic representation, genuine and distinctive.
