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Events: Houston Museum Presents 5000 years of 'Arts Of Korea'
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 28 November 2007 Page Views: 1846
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  National Treasures on Loan from National Museum of Korea spanning 5000 years make their first appearance outside of Korea. A highlight of the ceramics section will be the loan of an exceptionally large Neolithic Comb-Pattern Jar.
As a first step toward an expanded representation of Asian art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a new gallery dedicated to the art of Korea opens to the public on December 8, 2007.
Prominently located on the first floor of the museum´s Caroline Wiess Law Building, it will be the only museum gallery in the Southwest USA devoted to Korean art, and will combine contemporary Korean art with traditional artworks.
Arts of Korea Gallery
The Arts of Korea Gallery covers the Neolithic age to the present. Four thematic sections—ceramics, Buddhist art, women´s personal ornaments, and contemporary art—present key moments in the country´s arts and culture. Following the Asian tradition of marking the entrances to shrines and temples with distinctive gates, the MFAH has commissioned a portal from the foremost contemporary Korean artist, Do-Ho Suh, that will mark the entrance to the gallery. There will also be an area dedicated to loans of Korean art from important local collections.
National Treasures — Gold from Silla
The highlight of the gallery´s opening is the exclusive loan of two of Korea´s National Treasures from the 5th century Silla Kingdom, a Crown with pendants and a Girdle with pendants, to be on view at the MFAH through January 2008. These magnificent, rare gold objects are making their first appearance outside of their home country, where they were excavated from the tombs of rulers who reigned during what is often called the Kingdom of Gold (Silla Kingdom, 57 B.C.-668).
Six Silla crowns are known to exist. The one on display in Houston, found in the tomb referred to as Gold Crown, is one of five that have been excavated in Gyeongju, ancient seat of the Silla Kingdom. The crown is crafted of sheet gold with typical stylized decorative tree- and antler-shaped elements and numerous crescent-shaped jade ornaments called gogok. The tree and antler forms represent the connection between heaven and earth, and the gogok symbolize the resurrection of life, fecundity, and abundance. Excavations have revealed that such crowns were worn covering the entire face, and thus were probably created as burial objects for the deceased.
The gold girdle was found in the same tomb as the crown. It measures nearly four feet in length and is adorned with a series of 17 pendants—among them a fish, a small knife in a gold sheath, and a gold wire tassel—attached to a chain of small square plaques.
Ceramics
Of all the art forms, ceramics most clearly illustrate Korea´s aesthetic development and technological progress, beginning with the porous, low-fired earthenware ceramics made in the prehistoric Neolithic Age (8000-1000 B.C.) and encompassing Korea´s Bronze Age (1000-300 B.C.), the period of Three Kingdoms (300-668), the Silla period, the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392), the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), and up to the present day.
A highlight of the ceramics section will be the loan of an exceptionally large Neolithic Comb-Pattern Jar. Simple in form, it is almost 20 inches in height and is incised with a deliberate decorative comb-pattern motif. It was excavated near the Han River in modern-day Seoul, providing evidence of the long history of human habitation in that area. A Red-Burnished Jar is an example from the Bronze Age. Among the pieces from the Three Kingdoms period is a large hollow vessel in the shape of a duck, and from the Unified Silla dynasty, a stoneware burial urn stamped with a pattern covering the entire surface.
More at their web site www.mfah.org
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Re: Houston Museum Presents 5000 years of 'Arts Of Korea' (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, 04 December 2007 | Andy
definitly keep me posted on this one
I just relocated in eastern texas
I'm am archaeology student that loves museums
I'm somewhat north of houston and have been thinking of a sidetrip to the area and maybe a car rental and squeezing in a trip to galveston to check out the gulf
can provide any labor in setting up this exhibit;it would be most rewarding
currently working on my education online and in holiday mode till the superbowl as I love my post season play
houston a cool area anyway
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