Artist: Kim Jun-Geun, Known Kisan
Date: 1800
Size: 5 x 56 cm
Museum: Museu do Oriente (Lisbon, Portugal)
Technique: Watercolour
Buddhist musicians (gut-jung-pae-mo-yang). Gut means show; jung, Buddhist monk; pae, group; moyang, appearance; attitude, action. Grouped in a circle, the image shows the acrobatics and musical instruments typical of these public performances and the participants’ joyful, theatrical agility, the prowess of these bodies facilitated by the baggy, low-waisted trousers, and long, uneven sleeves undulating as they move. Carla Alferes Pinto in the Catalogue Portuguese Presence in Asia, Museu do Oriente, p. 440-442 The artist Kim Jun-geun was a Korean Christian painter who worked during the last two decades of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Having adopted the artistic name Kisan, he was best known for over three hundred watercolours depicting local folklore and customs, and in 1892 for illustrating the Korean translation of John Bunyan
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