朝鮮 金剛山 (in Ancient Paintings)

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But for 姚璐 and 汪芜生 at the bottom, all Chinese characters in this posting are hanja 漢字 (used in the Koreas).

Lee Lawrence, Climbing to New Peaks of Creativity. Wall Street Journal, Feb 8, 2018.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cli ... eativity-1518044362

Note:
(a) The review is not locked behind paywall (at least for once). However, if you can not get access, just read quotations in this posting, and that is enough.
(b) This is an exhibition review on
Diamond Mountains; Travel and nostalgia in Korean art. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb 7-May 20, 2018.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibi ... 8/diamond-mountains
(i) 金剛山 Mount Geumgang (which is the spelling in this WSJ review) is spelled Kŭmgangsan in en.wikipedia.org. 金剛山 includes Kuryong Falls 九龍瀑布 (height 74m), where legend has it that nine dragons used to reside there.
(A) Mount Kumgang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kumgang
(section 2 Geography: Mount Kumgang is commonly divided into three areas: Inner Kŭmgang [containing Manpok ravine 萬瀑洞. See (a)(ii)(B) below], Outer Kŭmgang, and Sea Kŭmgang -- in Outer Kŭmgang, Chipson Peak 集仙峰 [pronunciation: chipsŏn bong] (rock of ten thousand forms) is known for its many waterfalls)
(B) Compare Diamond Sutra  金剛經
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Sutra
(section 1 Title)
(ii) a cluster of paintings in this Web page (configured 2 x 2), clockwise from the the painting in left upper corner:
(A) Mount Geumgang Viewed from Danbal Ridge 단발령망금강. In 謙齋 鄭敾 鄭敾筆 楓嶽圖帖 朝鮮 Album of Mount Geumgang (Pungak-docheop),
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibi ... 8/diamond-mountains
(Medium: "Six leaves from a fourteen-leaf album; ink and light color on silk" (each leaf: 14 1/8 × 14 5/8 in. (35.9 × 37.1 cm) ); Credit Line: Lent by National Museum of Korea 國立中央博物館)

단발령망금강 (pronunciation/ transliteration: DanbalryeongMangeumgang  斷髮嶺望金剛)
(B) 謙齋 鄭敾 萬瀑洞 (謙玄神品帖) 朝鮮  Manpok Valley, from the Album of Divine Paintings by Gyeomjae [Jeong Seon] and Hyeonjae [Sim Sajeong] (Gyeomhyeon sinpumcheop).
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibi ... 4&pos=3&ft=*
(Date: mid-18th century; Medium: "Album leaf; ink and light color on silk;"  Dimensions: Image: 13 1/16 × 8 11/16 in. (33.2 × 22 cm); Credit Line: Lent by Seoul National University Museum 서울大學校博物館年報)
* "Gyeomjae [Jeong Seon]"   (Gyeomjae 謙齋 was 鄭敾's "artist name 號.")
* "Hyeonjae [Sim Sajeong]"  玄齋 [沈師正]
* Search images.google.com with 萬瀑洞 and you will appreciate the many waterfalls (large and small) in this valley. (The dong 洞 in Korea may mean a grotto/ cave (as in China) or a place.)
(C) 謙齋 鄭敾 穴望峰 (謙玄神品帖) 朝鮮  Hyeolmang Peak, from the Album of Divine Paintings by Gyeomjae [Jeong Seon] and Hyeonjae [Sim Sajeong] (Gyeomhyeon sinpumcheop).
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibi ... 4&pos=4&ft=*
(Date: mid-18th century; Medium: "Album leaf; ink and light color on silk,"  Dimensions:Image: 13 1/16 × 8 11/16 in (33.2 × 22 cm); Credit Line: Lent by Seoul National University Museum)

穴望峰 Hyeolmang Peak is the name of a (mountain) peak.
(D) 謙齋 鄭敾 正陽寺 朝鮮 Jeongyang Temple.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibi ... 4&pos=2&ft=*
(Date: first half of the 18th century; Medium: "Fan, now mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper;"  Credit Lineent by National Museum of Korea)

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(c) IN PRINT (but not online -- except 百川橋 which is shared both in print and online), a caption of three landscape paintings: "Clockwise from left: 'Mount Geumgang' (1861), by SIN Hakgwon; 'General View of Inner Geumgang' (mid-18th century), by SIN Hakgwon; 'Album of Mount Geumgang 楓嶽圖帖 (Pungak-Docheop): Baecheon Bridge 百川橋' (1711), by JEONG Seon 鄭敾."
(i) Soyoung Lee, A Mystical Korean Mountain Comes to the Met. London: Apollo (magazine), Jan 29, 2018
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/ ... n-comes-to-the-met/
(caption: "Mount Geumgang (three panels of eight), (1861), Sin Hakgwon. Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul")

mystical
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mystical
(A) It is the right panel with 真立峯 正陽寺 in its inscription. The print photo in WSJ is clearer than the one in the above link.
(B) Amorepacific Museum of Art was set up by Amorepacific Corp (founder 徐慶培).
(ii) 陶菴 申學權 金剛內山總圖 朝鮮 General View of Inner Geumgang. The Met, undated (artist name: Doam 陶菴; Accession Number: 2017.185)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/748432

But a few in the Web have 陶巖 in lieu of 陶菴.

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(d) "In 1711 JEONG Seon JEONG Seon 鄭敾 [a Korean landscape painter], a low-ranking Korean official with an aristocratic background and a scholar's education, sparked a new, enduring genre of Korean landscaping painting when he walked into the sprawling Mount Geumgang -- Diamond Mountains -- equipped with paper, ink and brushes. Six of the 13 views Jeong (1676–1759) produced form the starting point of [this exhibition]. About 50 miles within today's North Korean south border, the mountains * * * To mark the Korean gallery's 29th anniversary, Soyoung Lee, the Met's curator for Korean art, has filled it [gallery] with an overview o 300 years of Diamond Mountain imagery * * * Columns of stacked basalt blocks rise, precarious, by the sea. * * * Mount Geumgang's 12,000 peaks * * * Jeong -- who returned at least twice, in 1712 and 1747 * * * The earliest known [paintings of Diamond Mountains] known to exist are those of Jeong's 1711 album. * * * Jeong had not, in the mold of Chinese painters, arranged topographical elements to invent a landscape or express an emotion. He did not. But neither did Jeong always faithfully represent what he saw, as suggested by 'true view [眞景 / 實景山水畵 silgyeong sansuhwa; as opposed to 寫意山水畵],' the term scholars later applied to his drawn-from-observation style."

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(e) "Most of the works in the gallery, however, in some way carry forward the principles of Jeong's 'true view.'  In 'Sumitap Rock' (late 1700s - early 1800s), for example, Kim Hongdo 金弘道 used European shading and perspective to render the texture of a renowned rock. kim Hajong 金夏鐘 deployed similar techniques to inject 'Myeonggyeongdae 明鏡臺 Rock' (1815) with personality. And Byeon Gwansik 卞寬植 in his 1866 'Autumn Colors of Samseonam Rocks in Outer Geumgang' portrays three famous rocks, one of which bisects the composition."
(i) Yang-mo Chŏng et al, Arts of Korea. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000, at page 364
https://books.google.com/books?i ... jong%22&f=false
("Figure 29. Kim Ha-jong, '(1793- after 1875), 'Myŏnggyŏng-dae Terrace.' One leaf from Album of Sea and Mountains [Painting Book of Haesan 海山圖貼], dated 1815, an album of 25 leaves, ink and light color on silk, 11 3/4 X 17 in (29.7 X 45/5 cm). The National Museum o f Korea, Seoul")
(ii) "Autumn Colors of Samseonam Rocks in Outer Geumgang"  外金剛三仙岩 (where Samseonam is 三仙岩)
(A) physical:
* Aerial View of Samseonam Rock and Costal Road at Ulleungdo Island (The ninth largest island in Korea). Getty Images, undated (video).
https://www.gettyimages.com/deta ... o-footage/843603450
* 三仙岩 is offshore in northeastern edge of Ulleungdo 鬱陵島. See 三仙岩 (サムソナム / 삼선암). Konest (韓国旅行「コネスト」), undated.
https://www.konest.com/contents/spot_mise_detail.html?id=16044
* Ulleungdo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulleungdo
(map)   
(B) For the painting itself, search images.google.com with (卞寬植 三仙岩), and an image from "Korean Art Appraisal Board" pops up.

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(f) ONLINE (but not in print -- except 百川橋, that is), this WSJ review carries paintings:
(i) "Jeong Seon's 'Album of Mount Geumgang (Pungak-docheop): Buljeongdae 佛頂臺 Rock' (1711) PHOTO: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF KOREA"
(A) 'Buljeongdae Cliffs' from the Album of Paintings of Geumgangsan Mountain. National Museum of Korea, undated (Accession Number: Deoksu-000903-00002).
https://www.museum.go.kr/site/en ... nt/view?relicId=990
(B) Oddly, using both English and hanja, I fail to find the Buljeongdae in the real, physical world.
(ii) "Yao Lu's 'View of Autumn Mountains in the Distance' (2008) PHOTO: YAO LU"

YAO Lu  姚璐 (1967- ; male; based in Beijing).  I do not know why he is here, in the review.
(iii) "Wang Wusheng's 'Huangshan A104' (1984) PHOTO: WANG WUSHENG"
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