Jeong Seon
A Pioneer of Korean Landscape: The Life and Art of Jeong Seon Jeong Seon, known to the world by his pen name Gyeomjae, emerged from a Korea undergoing subtle yet significant shifts in intellectual and artistic currents during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Born in 1676 in the heart of Seoul, Jeong Seon’s beginnings were marked not by privilege but by modest circumstances. Though his family boasted an illustrious lineage, they lacked the financial stability to support a traditional scholarly path for their son. This circumstance, however, proved unexpectedly liberating. Denied access…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of Jeong Seon's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
