Clearing after Rain on Mount Inwang

It shows Seoul's Mount Inwang after a midsummer rain. The rock peaks, darkened by the rain, are painted in dense ink and fill the top of the picture; across the mountainside lies a band of unpainted space, the mist as it lifts; in the foreground are pines, trees, and houses. The upright black peaks set against the horizontal blank give the picture its stability. Painted entirely in ink on paper, it was in the collection of Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee and was donated by his family to the National Museum of Korea in 2021. It is a National Treasure of Korea.

When you see a true-view landscape in the gallery, notice how the dense-ink mountain and the blank mist sit one above the other.

No clouds are drawn, so how can you tell there is mist?

• True-view landscape 진경산수→The defining work of Jeong Seon's true-view landscape.
• Ink painting 수묵→Painted entirely in ink.