Artist: Kim Jun-Geun, Known Kisan
Date: 1800
Size: 5 x 56 cm
Museum: Museu do Oriente (Lisbon, Portugal)
Technique: Watercolour
Acrobat crossing a tightrope, hanging from a frame of two sticks in the shape of a cross (gwang-dae-jul-ta-go). Gwangdaejultago means acrobat walking a tightrope. The performance is accompanied by a group of six musicians playing stringed instruments, flutes and different kinds of drums, watched by three other characters (of apparently different social status). On a small table with folding legs we see a frugal meal, thus completing the scene.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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