© Minjung Kim

Currently not on view

Red Mountain,

2015

Minjung Kim, born 1962, Gwangju, South Korea; active South Korea, Italy, France, and United States
2019-239
Resembling mountains fading into a distant haze, the shapes seen here were formed by the artist’s technique of creating a dense saturation of ink along the upper edge of each layer of color wash. The interaction between the wash and the texture of the mulberry paper, together with each layer’s subtle variations in tone, creates the illusion of high-relief forms on a flat surface.

Information

Title
Red Mountain
Dates

2015

Maker

Minjung Kim

Medium
Watercolor on paper
Dimensions
75 × 124 cm (29 1/2 × 48 13/16 in.) frame: 83.7 × 133.6 × 4 cm (32 15/16 × 52 5/8 × 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund and gift of the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
Object Number
2019-239
Signatures
Signed and dated, lower right
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist's seal, lower right
Culture
Korean
Type
watercolors, drawings
Materials
kozo, watercolors
Subject
mountains, abstraction

<p>2015– Minjung Kim, born 1962.</p><p>–2019 Kang Collection Korean Art (New York, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2019. </p>

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