
김규진, 묵란첩(墨蘭帖), 29×18, 1910년대, 표지, 내지
<Album of Ink Paintings>
<Album of Ink Paintings> contains prose and poems written by the prominent intellectuals of the day for the brush paintings of Kim Gyu-Jin Hae-Kang (1868-1933). This copy is one part of the produced in 1916 block book titled <Hae-Kang’s Ink Paintings>.
The section includes works such as <About the World> (by Gomiya Sabomatsu), <Flower Painting> (by Lee Wan-Yong), <To a Straw> (by Kim Yun-Shik), <Of Water and Winds> (by Nam Jong-Cheol), <The Wisdom of Grass and Water> (by Jo Jung-Eung), <Ink Painting> (by So Song-Nok, Park Ki-Yang), <Straw’s Wisdom and Kindness> (by Yun Jo-Yeong), <The Wisdom of Plants> (by Yeo Gyu-Hyeong), <By the Water Edge> (by Jeong Dae-Yu), <About a Straw of Grass> (by Yobiko Yuichiro, Jin Geub-Go), <The Wisdom of the Wind> (by Ji Chang-Han), <Eastern Painting> (by Ji Woon-Yeong, Jeong Byeong-Ju), <A Pair of Grass Straws> (by Ji Seok-Yeong).
<Album of Ink Paintings> allows us to examine the origins of Kim Gyu-Jin’s brushwork within the tradition of plum-blossom paintings.