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Construction of Future Science City in the Kim Jong-un Era and Its Mapping in Art: The Emergence of New Urban Landscape Paintings in Impressionist Style

  • Asia Review
  • Abbr : SNUACAR
  • 2023, 13(1), pp.73~98
  • Publisher : 아시아연구소
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : February 8, 2023
  • Accepted : March 31, 2023
  • Published : April 30, 2023

CHO MIN JU 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

The plan for North Korea’s urban planning during the Kim Jong-un time is very future oriented and is closely related to the emergencies of the new taste of cityscape paining of this period. With the launch the Unha-3 rocket that was equipped with the Kwangmyong-3 satellite, the development of science and preparation for the space age became an important driving force in North Korean society. This political ideology of science was reflected in the city planning and urban culture of Pyongyang, the Galaxy Street commemorating the launch of the Unha-3 (2013), Satellite Street (2014), Future Scientists Street (2015) as well as skyscrapers such as the 53-story Eunha Residency were built one after another. The changed urban landscape appeared in various genres of painting, from propaganda painting to oil painting and Joseonhwa painting. In landscape painting depicting the changed cityscape of Pyongyang, the night view of Pyongyang’s new town, colored with artificial lighting in various colors, has become an important subject matter. In particular, Kim Jong-un ordered a policy to splendidly plan the night view of the city by establishing a new ‘Intuitive Lighting Decoration Guidance Bureau’ and creating a ‘Seonkyong Lighting Decoration Research Institute’ under the ‘Guidance Bureau’. This became an important driving force for the production of Impressionist landscape paintings that use ‘light’ and ‘color’ as important pictorial methods, which eventually diversified from the existing realism painting style. The interpretation of ‘artificial lighting’ seen in the Park Kwang-il’s oil painting ‘Future Scientists Street’ produced in 2018 goes beyond showing the newly emerged urban landscape, and actively reflects the artist’s imagination and expectation for the city’s night landscape. While implying each artist’s perspective and artistic taste in the early days of the Kim Jongun regime, the changed urban landscape and citizens’ sentiments were actively reflected on many landscape paintings in the impressionist style.

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