Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Chosŏnhwa sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Chosŏnhwa (1948 – Present), it traces one movement that shaped it, a well-established link: Socialist realism.
Chosŏnhwa (Korean: 조선화), meaning "Joseon painting" or "Korean painting", and also known as Juche realism, is the main artistic style of state sanctioned art in North Korea.
Chosŏnhwa seeks to modernize traditional brush-and-ink paintings within the stylistic and ideological criteria of Juche aesthetics. The North Korean ideology of Juche is a version of the socialist ideals with more emphasis on self-reliance of the state and the dominion of man over everything. Similarly, Juche realism is the localized North Korean adaptation of Socialist realism. Chosŏnhwa is the defining art style for North Korea's visual culture and embodies the needs and ideals of the state as it emerged from a turbulent post-colonial and post-war political climate. Chosŏnhwa serves as the singular representational art that the state allows where everything else is censored. Read more ↗