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Introduction

The artistic legacy of Korea dates back several millennia. The earliest examples of Korean art consist of stone age works dating from 3000 BCE. These mainly consist of votive sculptures, although petroglyphs have also been recently rediscovered.

This early period was followed by the art styles of various Korean kingdoms and dynasties, most of which lasted several hundred years. Korean artists sometimes modified Chinese traditions to accord with native preference for simple elegance, purity of nature and spontaneity. This filtering of Chinese styles subsequently influenced Japanese artistic traditions. This aesthetic dynamic, mostly due to cultural and geographical circumstances, has resulted in the delicate interweaving of ideas and innovations throughout the region. The Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) was one of the most prolific periods for artists in many diciplines, especially in pottery, which saw the flowering of Korea's most exquisite and enduring works.

The 20th century has seen a change from handmade individual works of art to mass produced machine-made works, and a Western separation of the arts into distinct and isolated categories. Modern Nationalism in Korea has encouraged a return to traditional art-forms.

The Korean art market is concentrated in the Insadong district of Seoul where over 50 small galleries exhibit and there are occasional fine arts auctions. Galleries are co-operatively run, small and often with curated and finely designed exhibits. In every town there are smaller regional galleries, with local artists showing in traditional and contemporary media. Art galleries usually have a mix of media. Attempts at bringing Western conceptual art into the foreground have usually had their best success outside of Korea in New York, San Francisco, London and Paris.

Partly as a result of Japanese colonial rule from 1910 to 1945, many of the oldest and most significant Korean art pieces are held in private and public collections in Japan. The Tokyo National Museum displays or stores more than 1,000 gold, bronze, and celadon pieces donated by the late businessman Takenosuke Ogura. In total, about 4,800 Korean art items, of which more than 2,000 are considered antiquities, are held at the museum. Eighty percent of all Korean Buddhist paintings are believed to be in Japan. And as many as 35,000 Korean art objects and 30,000 rare books have been confirmed to be there, too. These figures do not include private collections which are believed to hold significant quantities of Korean art.

History of Korean Art

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