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- Also called:
- Owon (Korean: “My Garden”)
- Born:
- 1843, Taewŏn, Korea [now in South Korea]
- Died:
- 1897, Seoul (aged 54)
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Chang Sŭng-ŏp
Korean painter
Also known as: Jang Seung-Up, Owon
Chang Sŭng-ŏp (born 1843, Taewŏn, Korea [now in South Korea]—died 1897, Seoul) was an outstanding painter of the late Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910) in Korea.
An orphan, Chang worked as a servant to a wealthy family, learning his art by watching the master’s son study painting. Although he later worked with Chinese painting manuals, he had no formal teachers, and illiteracy made him unable to sign his own paintings. Nevertheless, he was the first Korean to master the art of painting on the thin, fast-reacting Chinese paper instead of the thick, slow-reacting traditional Korean paper.
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