A Sculpture of the Founding King’s Master in Goryeo Dynasty Exhibition
What attracted my attention was a textile sculpture of a great monk during founding a dynasty.
A monk, his name was Huirang, helped King Wang Geon in the process of building a dynasty.
After the great master’s death, they made a really size of sculpture for him.
The way of making the sculpture was very unique in Korea.
The sculpture was made with the textile.
So, it is said that realistic expression was possible.
If you look at his face carefully, you can find the black warts on his face.
I heard that this kind of sculpture was not rare in Japan.
In my opinion, there were many in Korea too, but the whole sculptures except this one seemed to be destroyed in several catastrophic disasters.
This kind sculpture was left only one in Korea.
There was an interesting story on the birth of Huiran master monk.
He was said to come from a southern country of China.
His face looked not similar to that of the ordinary Koreans face.
But what I focused on this story was there was a communication among the countries from far away.
@slowwalker,
The craftsman of this sculpture tried to bring it to the real life! Amazing work and like you said, it reveals what type of interactions happens between countries and it's pretty amazing nah! Thank you very much for sharing these photography and the story behind this sculpture as well!
Cheers~
Wow, this is the only kind left in Korea? I'm not surprised, because it seems as if I've never seen textile sculpting before, I was looking at the material in the picture and the impression is so realistic really and it's definitely amazing, nice photography sir
Excellent post sir great pictures keep up the good work and thanks for stopping by much appreciated I hope you have a wonderful day
The statue is very interesting. I just found out there is a statue made of textiles.
What an interesting post. I have not known of textile sculpture before. It does look very lifelike. I can't imagine how it would have survived through all of the centuries. It's sad to think that this was the only one that is still in existence.
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@slowwalker, Exactly interesting to see Huiran master monk's sculpture. I heard before about textile statues. It's very attractive to our eyes. I believe Huiran master monk given massive assistance for built Goryeo Dynasty. Brilliant photo collection.
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The perfection in that is incredible great to see something like this and came to know more about it
great photos and beautiful art.
As you explained and then we know that Korea and China has good relationship in the past. I hope in the future too. As helper in founding dynasty I guess he get high honor in the kingdom, as an person who close with the king he has big role in the journey of the king
very realistic!