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| The Art of Calligraphy in Asia |
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| Princeton University Art Museum
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“Calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing, was long considered the supreme art form in China, Japan, and Korea. This elevated status reflects the importance of the written word in East Asian cultures. In ancient China, early emperors asserted their power by engraving edicts or pronouncements on stone in their own calligraphic script. The elite members of society were scholar ¬officials, whose status was attained by their command of the written word. In addition to the central role played by writing in Chinese culture, the visual form of the language also contributed to the distinctiveness of the calligraphic tradition. The vast number and complexity of the characters that make up the Chinese script presented artists with a unique platform on which to explore the creative possibilities of design. The writing of Chinese characters-which was then widely adopted in Korea around the fourth century and in Japan in the mid-sixth century-was thought to be the purest visual manifestation of the writer's inner character and level of cultivation. It was the medium through which a person's thoughts, feelings, and artistry were best conveyed. In looking at a piece of calligraphy, we may admire the way a calligrapher manipulated the brush to create an object of beauty in which rhythmic energy is conveyed through strokes and dots done with ink. Changes in ink gradation, the relationship between characters, and the elegance of a single line can entice viewers regardless of the legibility of the text.
Go to Museum Resource: https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/object-package/art-calligraphy-asia/104193 | |
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| Art of East Asia: Curriculum Guide |
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| San Diego Museum of Art
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The Museum’s Education Department has created a series of lesson plans to help introduce art into the classroom. The following lesson plans have been designed to help educators create elaborate classroom activities that will enhance their students’ understanding of works of art at The San Diego Museum of Art. See also: Exploring the Art of East Asia [PDF}.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.sdmart.org/curriculum/ | |
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| The Arts of Korea [PDF] |
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| Pacific Asia Museum of USC
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Centuries of artistic endeavor in the Korean peninsula have resulted in a vast legacy of rich symbolism and diverse expression. Korea’s location in northeast Asia has played a pivotal role in shaping Korea’s unique cultural heritage as well as in the transmission of East Asian art and culture. Acting as a conduit between China and Japan in religion, philosophy, technology and art, Korea provided significant cultural links in the larger region. The nation’s artistic tradition can be traced back to the Neolithic period (c. 6,000 – 1,000 BCE); Pacific Asia Museum’s collection covers over two thousand years of Korean artistic production from the Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE – 676 CE) until today. These objects attest to the broad and rich history of art and culture in Korea.
Go to Museum Resource: https://pacificasiamuseum.usc.edu/files/2016/06/PAM_KoreaBrochure_Web.pdf | |
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| The Arts of Korea: A Resource for Educators |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An illustrated 167-page teacher's guide that can be downloaded in .pdf format, either in its entirety or by chapter. Includes a discussion of Korea's history and religions, art history, materials, and music, specific artworks with descriptions, lesson plans and activities, plus a glossary, timeline, maps, and a list of additional resources. Korea occupies a pivotal position in East Asian regional affairs. Its relations with its larger neighbors, China and Japan, and its role in cultural and technical exchange within East Asia, are a crucial part of the country’s history. Yet, it is also important to understand and appreciate the separate and distinct character of Korea’s cultural and artistic heritage. Teachers Guide [PDF].
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/learn/educators/curriculum-resources/the-arts-of-korea | |
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| Choson Dynasty, 1392-1910 |
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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"The rulers of the Yi, or Choson, dynasty (1392-1910) adopted Confucianism as their governing ideology and withdrew official support for Buddhism." A brief one-paragraph overview, with four objects representative of the period.
Go to Museum Resource: http://archive.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/history/korea-choson-dynasty.cfm | |
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| Create a Lotus Lantern for the Lotus Lantern Festival |
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| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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Students will: 1.) Learn that Buddhism is a religion founded by an enlightened young Indian prince who became the Buddha. 2.) Learn how the Buddha’s birthday, a national holiday, is celebrated in Korea. 3.) Discuss how the lotus flower is symbol of purity and wisdom. 3.) Construct a lotus blossom lantern. Downloads include visual guides and instructions, a slide show activity, and stencil.
Go to Museum Resource: https://education.asianart.org/resources/create-a-lotus-lantern-for-the-lotus-l... | |
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| Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across Asia |
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| Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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Buddhism—and the art it inspired—helped shape the cultures of Asia. Today, its extraordinary art is a source of beauty and contemplation for audiences across the world.Encountering the Buddha brings together more than two hundred artworks, spanning two millennia, to explore Asia’s rich Buddhist heritage. They represent diverse schools that arose from the Buddha’s teachings.Throughout the exhibition and the website, we explore how Buddhist artworks are endowed with sacred power. We ask, why were they created? How did Buddhists engage with them? And how do Buddhist understandings of such objects differ from those of art museums?
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.freersackler.si.edu/exhibition/encountering-the-buddha-art-and-prac... | |
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| Explore Korea: A Visit to Grandfather's House [PDF] |
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| Seattle Art Museum
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"The unit theme of Explore Korea: A Visit to Grandfather's House links traditional objects from Korean households to their original setting within a certain area of the house and to their purpose in this culture." With seven classroom activities for K-5 levels.
Go to Museum Resource: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.553.3579&rep=rep1&type... | |
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| Fire Over Earth: Ceramics from the Collection of the Asia Society |
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| Asia Society
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Explores the interrelationships between the ceramic traditions of China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia in terms of techniques, styles and the roles played by ceramics in different contexts. Features seven objects with accompanying text and a glossary.
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/ceramics/ | |
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| Ganggangsullae: Korean Dance Music of the Full Moon |
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| Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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In this lesson, students will develop an understanding of the mode of Namdo Korean folksongs, as well as the call-and-response musical form. To illustrate these features, this lesson focuses on the 5,000 year-old Korean dance known as "Ganggangsullae" ("Kang-Kang-Soo-Woo-Nae"). This dance is typically performed by women under the full moon, and it incorporates singing, dancing, and playing. Within the cultural unit are various activities such as drawing, exercising melodic skills, singing the song form, writing lyrics, and dancing in a circle.
Go to Museum Resource: https://folkways.si.edu/ganggangsullae-korean-dance-full-moon/traditonal-folk/m... | |
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| Golden Treasures: The Royal Tombs of Silla |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A discussion of the royal tombs of the Old Silla kingdom (BCE 57-668 CE) and the "hoards of precious ornaments buried within," including jewelry and crowns and ornaments of pure gold. With 6 related objects.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/sila/hd_sila.htm | |
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| Goryeo Celadon |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Discusses the development of celadon ceramic production during the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392). With 11 related objects. The term celadon is thought to derive from the name of the hero in a seventeenth-century French pastoral comedy. The color of the character Céladon’s robe evoked, in the minds of Europeans, the distinctive green-glazed ceramics from China, where celadon originated. Some scholars object to such an arbitrary and romanticized Western nomenclature. Yet the ambiguity of the term celadon effectively captures the myriad hues of greens and blues of this ceramic type. During the nearly five centuries of the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), celadon constituted the main type of ceramics produced on the Korean peninsula.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cela/hd_cela.htm | |
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| Goryeo Dynasty: Korea’s Age of Enlightenment [PDF] |
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| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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Few people are aware that the name Korea is derived from the name of the Goryeo (previously tranliterated as Koryo) dynasty. It was during this period (918–1392) that Korea became known to the world outside East Asia. This packet provides an overview of aspects of Goryeo society and Goryeo Buddhism as depicted in the arts of the period.
Go to Museum Resource: https://education.asianart.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/12/GoryeoDynasty... | |
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| Great Waves: Chinese Themes in the Arts of Korea and Japan |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2003 exhibition that "explores how Chinese pictorial themes—Buddhist iconography, landscape imagery, flower and bird subjects, and figural narratives—were selectively adopted and reinterpreted by native artists in Korea and Japan." With images of 16 related artworks dating from the 10th to the 18th century.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2003/great-waves | |
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| How to Identify a Buddha |
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| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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"The earliest surviving representations of the Buddha date from hundreds of years after his death, so they are not portraits in the usual sense. Buddha images vary greatly from place to place and period to period, but they almost always show these conventional features..." Downloads includes student handouts and a teacher packet on Hindu Buddhist Art. See also An Introduction to Buddhism.
Go to Museum Resource: https://education.asianart.org/resources/how-to-identify-a-buddha/ | |
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| Illuminated Manuscripts: The Sacred Art of Narration |
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| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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Students will: 1.) Identify the format and elements of a sutra. 2.) Examine why sutras (the teachings of the Buddha) are important historical and religious documents. 3.) Analyze why the writing of sutras is considered an important religious act. 4.) Construct and illustrate an accordion book manuscript based on the sutra format used during the Goryeo dynasty. Downloads include Visual Guides, a Lesson Plan, and Teachers Packet.
Go to Museum Resource: https://education.asianart.org/resources/illuminated-manuscripts-the-sacred-art... | |
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| In Pursuit of White: Porcelain in the Chosôn Dynasty, 1392–1910 |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Discusses the ascendance of paekcha, or white ware, during the Chosôn period, including its adoption as imperial ware in the 15th century. With 10 related objects.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chpo/hd_chpo.htm | |
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| Joseon Buncheong Ware: Between Celadon and Porcelain |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A discussion of buncheong ware, "the striking ceramic type produced during the first 200 years of the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)." With six related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pnch/hd_pnch.htm | |
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| Korea: Land of Diamond Mountains |
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| The Newark Museum
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These lessons for middle and high school encourage students to look longer and more closely at objects, both in advance and during a gallery visit; increase their articulation and vocabulary skills by focusing on the use of descriptive language; improve their listening skills; develop interpretation skills; and improve their capacity to synthesize information. Object Observation stimulates curiosity and confidence among students when they engage in “accountable talk.” Students will complete a related art making activity after viewing works in the Korean collection. Provided is an example for the Munjado Screen. Students, now familiar with the Munjado Screen and concepts of Neo-Confucianism in Korean society, will get the chance to make their own Munjado screen. They will decide what types of virtues would be important for their screens and what types of symbols communicate those virtues. They will be asked to present the choices they made on their screen in a small group or to the class.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.newarkmuseumedu.org/learningcenter/activities/korea-land-diamond-mou... | |
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| Korean Art and Culture: A Teacher’s Sourcebook – Peabody Essex Museum [PDF] |
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| Peabody Essex Museum
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Classroom resource on Korean culture, including art, art history, and religious studies. This sourcebook, which features the Korean Art Collection of the Peabody Essex Museum Salem, MA, contains vibrant images and informative essays about the collection. This sourcebook details many diverse forms of Korean art-- whether it be paper crafts, embroidery, or pottery - you will be sure to learn something new! Also included in this resource is a glossary of symbols (which are abundant in Korean art). The Peabody Essex Museum has much to offer and assist you in sharing Korean art and culture with your students.
Go to Museum Resource: https://sites.evergreen.edu/essentialingredients/wp-content/uploads/sites/182/2... | |
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| Korean Art: Collecting Treasures |
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| Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida
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Korean Art: Collecting Treasures is an online exhibit that presents bronzes, ceramics, furniture, paintings, prints and sculpture from the Harn’s collections. The exhibition features donations from General James Van Fleet (1892-992) to the Harn in 1988. Highlights from the Van Fleet collection include hanging scroll masterpieces by Kim Hongdo (1745 - c.1806), Jang Seung-eop (1843-1897), and Kim Eunho (1892-1979), each noteworthy for their quality and rarity in Western collections.
Go to Museum Resource: http://exhibits.uflib.ufl.edu/harnkoreanart/bodhisattva.html | |
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| Korean Art: Overview |
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| Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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The simple forms, spare decoration, and monochrome glazes of the Joseon period (1392–1910) Korean tea bowls used in Japan first attracted Charles Lang Freer to Korean ceramics. He expanded his collection to include celadon ceramics from the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), which had once adorned palaces, Buddhist temples, and private residences of the aristocracy. Explore their past exhibits on Korean art.
Go to Museum Resource: https://asia.si.edu/exhibitions/korean-art/ | |
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| Korean Buddhist Sculpture (5th–9th century) |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A discussion of Buddhism's introduction to the Korean peninsula in 372 CE and its influence on artistic developments during the Three Kingdoms period (BCE 57 - 668 CE), specifically in architecture and sculpture.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/kobs/hd_kobs.htm | |
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| Korean Celadons of the Goryeo Dynasty |
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| Smart History
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Celadons are ceramics with a distinctive green-blue glaze. The color, coupled with intricate inlaid ornamentation, are part of what has made Goryeo celadons desirable and recognizable objects for centuries. Korean potters adapted and refined celadon technology from China to create distinctively Korean ceramics revered by elites in Korea, China, and Japan alike.
Go to Museum Resource: https://smarthistory.org/korean-celadons-goryeo/ | |
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| Korean Masks |
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| Hahoe Mask Museum
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A guide to traditional Korean masks, with images of more than 125 different masks. With links at the top of the page to other essays about Hahoe and Byungsan masks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.tal.or.kr/coding/english/default.asp | |
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| Koryo Dynasty, 918-1392 |
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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"The last Silla king abdicated the throne in the early 10th century and married the daughter of the upstart General Wang Kon, who founded the Koryo dynasty (918-1392)." A brief one-paragraph overview, with two objects representative of the period.
Go to Museum Resource: http://archive.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/history/korea-koryo-dynasty.cfm | |
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| Lacquerware of East Asia |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An introduction to East Asian lacquerware. Discusses production methods, as well as artistic techniques as they developed in China, Japan, and Korea, respectively. Includes a short glossary of decoration techniques. With 14 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/elac/hd_elac.htm | |
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| Learning from Asian Art: Korea |
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| Philadelphia Museum of Art
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"This online resource introduces students to Korean art and culture as they explore works in the Philadephia Museum’s collection. Each art image is accompanied by background information, a set of looking questions, and related classroom activity suggestions that students can use individually, in small groups, or as a whole class." With 14 images, plus a map, timeline, and list of recommended print resources and websites.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.philamuseum.org/booklets/5_29_46_1.html | |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Asian Art |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Metropolitan Museum's content-rich website offers many options for exploring its online collection of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan art. Browse artworks by country/culture, time period, or subject area; or search for artworks and featured content for a specific country/culture or topic by using the Timeline website's search tool.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ | |
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Art of Asia |
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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The Explore the Collection section of this content-rich site features nearly 3,500 objects from the MIA's collection of Asian art. All images have a Zoom View; most images have descriptions. A Featured Objects section highlights 20 objects from the collection in great detail (through curator interviews), and six Featured Collections showcase objects in the following categories: 1) Ancient Chinese Bronzes; 2) Architectural Models; 3) Chinese Furniture; 4) Imperial Silks; 5) Taoist Art; and 6) Ukiyo-e. Users can also browse objects by country/region or by one of 15 subject categories (architecture, paintings, ceramics, drawings, etc.) or use the keyword search. An Add to My Collection feature allows users to create an online gallery to save and to share.
Go to Museum Resource: http://archive.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/explore/index.html | |
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| Mountain and Water: Korean Landscape Painting, 1400–1800 |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An extensive discussion of landscape painting during the Chosôn dynasty (1392-1910), which "coincides with a period of great maturation of landscape painting, in style and theoretical paradigms." Covers major artists and key developments in style and technique. With 6 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mowa/hd_mowa.htm | |
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| Museum Dictionary: A Young Person's Guide to the Collections of the Kyoto National Museum |
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| Kyoto National Museum
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"Museum Dictionary: A Young Person's Guide to the Collections of the Kyoto National Museum": excellent teaching resource for students of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean art. Images enlarge, text in story format.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/dictio/index.html | |
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| Neolithic and Bronze Age Korea: 7000-1st Century B.C. |
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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"Archaeologists believe the Koreans descended from the nomadic Mongolian tribes that lived in North and Central Asia." A brief one-paragraph overview, along with an image of one object representative of the period.
Go to Museum Resource: http://archive.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/history/korea-neolithic-bronze-age.cfm | |
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| Red Luster (Lacquer) |
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| The Newark Museum
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Much of East Asia Lacquer is made from a toxic resin produced by the so-called ‘varnish tree’ (Toxicodendron vernicifluum, formerly identified as Rhus vernicifluum) native to parts of China that also grows in areas of Korea and Japan. Initially, this tree’s resin is processed into a liquid that may be applied over any surface such as woods, metals, cloth, ceramics, baskets, shells, and so forth. To maximize lacquer’s significant protective coating, multiple thin layers are applied and each layer must fully dry before the next is added. Drying is carefully controlled to prevent cracking that would weaken the functional and decorative properties. Raw lacquer dries into a naturally dark color. Adding opaque minerals, such as cinnabar reds (mercury sulfide), orpiment yellows (arsenic sulfate), and malachite greens (copper carbonate) creates colored lacquers. In different processing stages, lacquer can be worked in a variety of techniques.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.newarkmuseum.org/red-luster | |
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| Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In the ancient world, the Korean kingdom of Silla (57 B.C.–A.D. 935) was renowned as a country of gold. Through over 100 spectacular objects created between A.D. 400 and 800—Silla's seminal period—the landmark exhibition Silla: Korea's Golden Kingdom presents the remarkable artistic achievements of a small kingdom that rose to prominence, embraced cosmopolitanism, and eventually gained control over much of the Korean peninsula. The exhibition is the first in the West to focus exclusively on the arts of Silla. Among the highlights are exquisite regalia discovered in the tombs of royalty and the elite; unique treasures made in places between China and the Mediterranean and preserved in Korea; and Buddhist icons and reliquaries reinterpreting pan-Asian styles with native aesthetics.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/koreas-golden-kingdom | |
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| The Spread of Buddhism Across Asia |
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| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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Understand, through the analysis of artifacts and maps, how Buddhism changed as it spread across Asia and came to reflect the countries that embraced it. Downloads include a slideshow and handout on Buddhist artifacts and a lesson plan.
Go to Museum Resource: https://education.asianart.org/resources/the-spread-of-buddhism-across-asia/ | |
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| Temple, Palace, Scholar’s House: Three Settings of Traditional Korean Culture [PDF] |
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| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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This packet introduces teachers and other readers to several traditional settings of Korean culture: Buddhist temples, palaces, and scholar’s houses, as well as Confucian academies where scholars were trained. These settings provide a framework or backdrop for many of the historical art objects on display at the museum.
Go to Museum Resource: https://education.asianart.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/09/Temple-Palace... | |
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| Timeline of Art History: Korea, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D. |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"During the first millennium B.C., bronze technology and then iron technology are introduced into the Korean peninsula, probably from the northern regions of the continental mainland, and are used to produce both utilitarian and ritual implements." With a period overview, list of key events, and 1 related artwork. Also has links to an abridged list of rulers in Korea and timelines of China and Japan during this time.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=04®ion=eak | |
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| Timeline of Art History: Korea, 1000–1400 A.D. |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"Some of the most outstanding achievements in Korean art and culture date to the Koryô dynasty (918–1392), which rules the peninsula for nearly 500 years." With a period overview, list of key events, and 10 related artworks. Also has links to additional information about celadon production during the Koryô and ceramic production during the Chosôn (1392-1910), an abridged list of rulers in Korea, and timelines of China and Japan during this time.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=07®ion=eak | |
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| Timeline of Art History: Korea, 1400-1600 A.D. |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"In an attempt to distance themselves from the former Koryô court and rejuvenate the country, the rulers of the new Chosôn dynasty (1392–1910) severely curtail the practice of Buddhism and embrace Neo-Confucianism as the official state ideology." With a period overview, list of key events, and 10 related artworks. Also has links to additional information about ceramic production during the Chosôn, an abridged list of rulers in Korea, and timelines of China and Japan during this time.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=08®ion=eak | |
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| Timeline of Art History: Korea, 1600-1800 A.D. |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"The Manchu invasions of the Korean peninsula and the subsequent establishment of the Qing dynasty in China during the first half of the seventeenth century shape the Chosôn elite's view of its own culture." With a period overview, list of key events, and 8 related artworks. Also has links to additional information about ceramic production during the Chosôn dynasty (1392-1910), an abridged list of rulers in Korea, and timelines of China and Japan during this time.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=09®ion=eak | |
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| Timeline of Art History: Korea, 1800–1900 A.D. |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"The nineteenth century is a period of significant political, social, and cultural change as Korea lurches into the modern era and world order." With a period overview, list of key events, and 9 related artworks. Also has links to additional information about ceramic production during the Chosôn dynasty (1392-1910), an abridged list of rulers in Korea, and timelines of China and Japan during this time.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=10®ion=eak | |
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| Timeline of Art History: Korea, 1900 A.D.–present |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"The first half of the twentieth century in Korean history is marked by two grave and painful experiences: the Japanese occupation between 1910 and 1945 and the Korean War of 1950–53." With a period overview and list of key events (but no images). Also has links to additional information about ceramic production during the Chosôn dynasty (1392-1910), an abridged list of rulers in Korea, and timelines of China and Japan during this time.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=11®ion=eak | |
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| Timeline of Art History: Korea, 1–500 A.D. |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"With the destruction of the Han Chinese military commandery Lelang in 313 A.D., and the division of the peninsula among the three kingdoms of Koguryô (in the north), Paekche (in the southwest), and Silla (in the southeast), along with the small confederation of city-states known as the Kaya Federation (in the region between Paekche and Silla), a critical new era in Korean history dawns." With a period overview, list of key events, and 6 related artworks. Also has links to additional information about the royal tombs of the Silla kingdom (BCE 57-668 CE), an abridged list of rulers in Korea, and timelines of China and Japan during this time.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=05®ion=eak | |
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| Timeline of Art History: Korea, 500–1000 A.D. |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"Through a series of military and political moves, the kingdom of Silla (57 B.C–668 A.D.) achieves dominance over most of the Korean peninsula by the end of the seventh century." With a period overview, list of key events, and 9 related artworks. Also has links to additional information about the royal tombs of the Silla kingdom and celadon from the Koryô dynasty (918-1392), an abridged list of rulers in Korea, and timelines of China and Japan during this time.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=06®ion=eak | |
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| Visions of Enlightenment: Arts of Buddhism |
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| Pacific Asia Museum of USC
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An excellent site for students, with many additional resources for teachers. Text essays with images on the following four topics: 1) The Perfected One: The Buddha; 2) Compassionate Beings: Bodhisattvas, Deities, Guardians, Holy Men; 3) Buddhist Places; and 4) Signs, Symbols, Ritual Objects. Also features an extensive glossary of Buddhist-related terms and an excellent interactive map and timeline outlining the life of the Buddha and the spread of Buddhism. Teaching unit at the link below. See also Introduction.
Go to Museum Resource: https://pacificasiamuseum.usc.edu/exhibitions/past/exhibitions-at-usc-pam-prior... | |
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| Work and Leisure: Eighteenth-Century Genre Painting in Korea |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An extensive discussion of genre painting (illustrations of everyday life) in 18th-century Korea. Covers major artists and key developments in style and technique. With 4 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/kgnr/hd_kgnr.htm | |
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| Yangban: The Cultural Life of the Joseon Literati |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An extensive discussion of the yangban, the scholar-official class of Joseon Korea. The Joseon yangban were Confucians, and they considered themselves to be "custodians of proper Confucian mores" in Korean society. With 7 related art objects.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/yang/hd_yang.htm | |
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