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Internal errors

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As in quite all drama, one can detect some continuity errors (internal errors of the scenario):

  • In E09 Sang-gung uses the pen name Hyewon... before this pen name has been given (E13).[1]
  • In E15 56:28, the bad guy is plainly played by the same actor as the mysterious man (Baek Dong-su).
  • Problems in sexagesimal cycle. When "now" is 1777 = jeong-yu 정유, then "ten years before" is 1766 = byeong-sul 병술. And not byeong-jin 병진. Both the Korean track sound (everywhere) and the Chinese characters in the "secret library" (E14, 09:27) are describing 丙辰年, i.e. 1796.[2]


Art and Artistic license

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The events described by the twenty episodes are dated 1777 (=now) with flashes-back from 1766 (=ten years before). This two years scheme had required some artistic license with the meager historical facts known about the involved painters. Among the distorsions, we can list:

  • Painter Yi Myeong-gi 이명기 is only known fl 1791-1796. Painting of Seo Jik-su (E08) is 1796.
  • Portrait of Chae Jegong (E09) is 1792 by Yi Myeong-gi, not 1777 by Kim Hong-do.
  • Gang Se-hwang lived 1713-1791, and therefore not murdered 1766.
  • Portrait of King Yi Taejo, 태조 어진, Taejo Eojin, was painted 1872.
  • Dasan Jeong Yak-jong lived 1762-1836. In 1766, he hasn't draw any machine sketches !
  • Nam Gye-u lived 1811-88. His Butterflies were not painted circa 1777.


Such artistic license allows a better unity of the scenario, and has been largely acknowledged by the scenarist. Each episode of the series starts by a foreword that says : "the contents of this drama may not match some of the historical facts" (On the left stands the stylized title: 바람의 화원).

Several academics have criticized the drama due to these distorsions [3]. But, on the other hand, the main result over the large public seems to have been an increased interest for artistic topics. "Every day for the past two weeks a line of visitors stretched 300 meters (984 feet) in front of [the Kansong Art Museum in Seongbuk-dong, northern Seoul], and officials reckon 200,000 people having seen the exhibition since it opened on Oct. 12, 2008, buying up more than 2,000 prints of the art on display".

Should art capture the spirit of a scene or a person, or capture each irrelevant detail ? This is a well known question. Another is how to decript a painting.


Episodes

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More than forty paintings are involved in the series, providing a possible context for each of them. For the paintings from the Hyewon pungsokdo, this exercise is more striking if possible since the titles were not given by the painter himself, put where attributed more than a century later.

외유사생 (A journey to paint from life) E01

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Gang Hui-an (1417-1464)
Gosa.gwansu 고사관수도
A scholar at water
Shin Yun-bok
Gidalim 기다림
Waiting
Kim Hong-do
Songha.maengho
송하맹호도
Tiger under a pine tree
Kim Hong-do
Songha.chwisaeng
송하취생도
Drunkard under a tree
A journey to paint from life [외유사생]

장파형 (Before tempest) E02

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Hyewon pungsokdo
Chunsaek.manwon 춘색만원
Spring mood covers all over the places
Nine dots, four strokes
Hyewon pungsokdo
Sonyeon.jeonhong 소년전홍
Young boy plucking an azalea
Before tempest [장파형]

장파형수 (Hand crushing punishment) E03

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Shin Yun-bok Gidalim 기다림
Dancheongsil-style painting
Hand crushing punishment [장파형수]

군선도 (Painting of the nineteen immortals) E04

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Kim Hong-do Gunseondo, 군선도, 1777
Painting of the nineteen immortals


단오풍정 (Scenery on Dano day) E05

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Hyewon yeosokdo
jangos.ibeun.yeoin 장옷 입은 여인
Don't recognize me !
Hyewon pungsokdo
Dano.pungjeong 단오풍정
Scenery on Dano day
Kim Hong-do
Hwangmyo.nongjeop 황묘농접
Cat watching at a butterfly
Scenery on Dano day [단오풍정]

동제각화 (One topic, two paintings) E06

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Hyewon pungsokdo
Jusa.geobae 주사거배
Pillars of the tavern
Danwon pungsokdo
Jumak 주막
People at the tavern
One topic, two paintings [동제각화]


정풍 (Gathering evidences) E07

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Danwon pungsokdo
Daejanggan 대장간
Iron Smiths
Hyewon pungsokdo
Munyeo.sinmu 무녀신무
Dance of a Shaman
Gathering evidences [정풍]


어진화사 1 (Imperial Master Painter) E08

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Hyewon pungsokdo
Gyebeon.gahwa 계변가화
A story of a street by a stream
Danwon pungsokdo
Bbalrae.teo 빨래터
A laundry place
Yi Myeong-gi, Kim Hong-do
서직수 초상
Portrait of Seo Jik-su (1796)
Self portrait of Yun Du-seo (1668-1715)
윤두서 자화상
Three Jeongs, Five Aks
Imperial Master Painter [어진화사 1]

어진화사 2 (Imperial Master Painter) E09

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Yi Myeong-gi
채제공의 초상화
Portrait of Chae Je-gong (1792)
Imperial Master Painter [어진화사 2]


어진화사 3 (Imperial Master Painter) E10

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Various artists (1872)
Taejo Eojin 태조 어진
Retrospective Portrait of King Taejo
Imperial Master Painter [어진화사 3]


어진화사 4 (Imperial Master Painter) E11

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Gang Se-hwang (1713–1791)
강세황의 자화상
Self Portrait (1784)
Unhangak, Hwaseong Fortress

Portrait of King Jeongjo
Imperial Master Painter [어진화사 4]


봉심 (Bongsim Evaluation) E12

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(1862)
Portrait of King Cheoljong
Bongsim Evaluation [봉심]

생과 사 (Life and Death) E13

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Nam Gye-u (1811-88)
남계우 - 군접도
Butterflies
Life and Death [생과사]


잃어버린 예진 (Searching for the Lost Yejin) E14

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Shen Quan (1682—1760)
Pine, Plum and Cranes
(1759)
Okada Beisanjin (1744-1820)
Scholars and Pine Tree
Hyewon pungsokdo
Cheonggeum.sangryeon 청금상련
Geomungo music, lotus fragance
Searching for the Lost Yejin [잃어버린 예진]

다섯개의 초상 (Portraits of the Five Bamboos) E15

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Danwon Pungsokdo
Mudong 무동
Dancing boy
Kim Hong-do
Sansuhwa 김홍도 - 산수화
Mountains
Hyewon pungsokdo
Gibang.musa 기방무사
Warrior at rest
Kim Hong-do
Hahwa-Cheongjeong 하화청정도
Lotus and dragonflies
Portraits of the Five Bamboos [다섯개의 초상]



얼굴없는 초상 (The Faceless Portrait) E16

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Faceless Portrait
(courtesy of Yi Jaegwan)
Hyewon pungsokdo, Weolha.jeongin 월하정인
Lovers under the moonlight

In the middle of the night,
When the moon is dark,
The two hearts are one.
Hyewon pungsokdo
Sangchun.yaheung 상춘야흥
Amusing Spring Day
The Faceless portrait [얼굴없는 초상]

십년전 여인 (The Girl from Ten Years Before) E17

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Jost Amman (1539-1591)
"Das Ständebuch (1568)".
Paper making
Hyewon pungsokdo
Yugwak.jaengung 유곽쟁웅
Hero at the Brothel
The Girl from Ten Years Before [십년전 여인]



원수 (Enemies) E18

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Hyewon pungsokdo
Weolha.milhoe 월야밀회
Secret affair under the moon
Gao Qipei (1672-1734)
Crabs and Chrysanthemums
Hyewon pungsokdo
Ibu.tamchun 이부탐춘
Mistress indulges in Spring
Enemies [원수]


쟁투 (Fight) E19

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Hyewon pungsokdo
Ssanggeom.daemu 쌍검대무
Double Swords Dancing
Danwon pungsokdo
Ssireum 씨름
Wrestling
Fight [쟁투]

미인도 (Portrait of a Beauty) E20

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Shin Yun-bok
Miindo 미인도
Portrait of a Beauty
A painting meaning, wouldn't that be of yearning and longing for?