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LANDSCAPES: SEEKING THE IDEAL LAND DATE JULY 29 – SEPTEMBER 28, 2014 VENUE SPECIAL EXHIBITION GALLERY, PERMANENT EXHIBITION HALL
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The exhibition Landscapes: Seeking the Ideal Land compares and contrasts the landscape paintings of Korea, China and Japan through the common theme of “the ideal land,” a long beloved theme in East rea to bring together the landscape masterpieces of the three countries including Yi Inmun’s Streams and Mountains Without End from the collection of the National Museum of Korea, Qian Xuan’s Ode on
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Asian cultures. Featuring 112 works, the exhibition is the first in Ko-
Returning Home from China, and So Ami’s Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers from Japan. The exhibition provides the opportunity to explore the diverse perspectives on what constitutes an ideal land seen with the mind’s eye of the people of old, and the changes that appeared according to the era. It also encourages us to look back on ourselves as people who sought to find peace in nature from the past to the present.
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